cestoden.adj.
/ˈsɛstəʊd/, U.S. /ˈsɛsˌtoʊd/ Zoology.
A. n.
A parasitic worm of the class Cestoda, having a flat, ribbon-like body; a tapeworm.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Platyhelminthes > [noun] > class Cestodes > member of
joint-worm1706
taenia1706
tapeworm1752
cestoid1837
lark-worm?1842
cestode1864
caseworm1906
1864 T. S. Cobbold Entozoa viii. 105 Every cestode passes through several distinct phases during its life-history.
1919 Parasitology 11 405 The cestodes of lizards have received little recent attention from systematic zoologists.
1959 A. C. Hardy Open Sea II. xii. 244 We come now to the cestodes or tapeworms, those animals which are apt to fill us with disgust because one of their kind..may come to reside in our own inside.
1977 T. I. Storer et al. Elements Zool. (ed. 4) xvii. 290/1 The cestodes..are all internal parasites of vertebrates.
B. adj.
Of, pertaining to, or designating this class; = cestoid adj.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Platyhelminthes > [adjective] > relating to tape-worms
cestode1864
taenian1897
1864 T. S. Cobbold Entozoa viii. 107 It is..difficult to estimate the number of true cestode species at present in existence.
1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life 137 The cestode many-jointed tapeworms.
1919 Parasitology 11 405 (heading) On two species of the cestode genus Oochoristica from lizards.
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