Tapeworm is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TAPEWORM in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a parasitic worm
• a parasitic flatworm, the adult of which lives in the intestines. It has a long ribbon-like body with many segments that can become independent, and a small head bearing hooks and suckers.
• long flat parasitic worm living in the intestines of vertebrates
• Any one of numerous species of cestode worms belonging to Taenia and many allied genera. The body is long, flat, and composed of numerous segments or proglottids varying in shape, those toward the end of the body being much larger and longer than the anterior ones, and containing the fully developed sexual organs. The head is small, destitute of a mouth, but furnished with two or more suckers (which vary greatly in shape in different genera), and sometimes, also, with hooks for adhesion to the walls of the intestines of the animals in which they are parasitic. The larvae (see Cysticercus) live in the flesh of various creatures, and when swallowed by another animal of the right species develo
• ribbonlike flatworms that are parasitic in the intestines of humans and other vertebrates

Words related to TAPEWORM

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Words that contain TAPEWORM

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How to use TAPEWORM in a sentence

• This is a tape-worm of about fifteen inches in average length, although I have taken them from Newfoundland pups fully thirty inches long.
• The sponge, like the tape-worm, has no stomach, but must absorb its food through the outer skin from matter in a soluble state, similarly to the roots of trees.
• In other cases, as in the tape-worm, the oyster, and numerous other mollusks, a single individual has the power to fertilize its own ova, thus being wholly independent.
• Strauss, however, adhered to the idea that as the tapeworm, as he supposed, was self-produced, so man was originated by the primeval slime.
• A small inconspicuous tapeworm inhabits the intestine of dogs and seems to produce no ill effects.
• Every writer carries a canker in his heart, a devouring monster, like the tapeworm in the stomach, which destroys all feeling as it arises in him.

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