cucurbitinn.
/kjuːˈkəːbɪtɪn/ Zoology.
A name for each separated segment or proglottis of a tapeworm, from its resemblance to the seed of a gourd.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Platyhelminthes > [noun] > class Cestodes > member of > segmented > segments of
gourd-worm1756
proglottis1855
cucurbitin1861
proglottid1878
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) vii. xlix. 262 Wormes that ben nourisshed..in the nether grete bowelles hyghte Ascarides and Cucurbitini, for they ben lyke to the seedes of gourdes.]
1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. vii. xiii. 400 The successive transformations which the Tænia communis undergoes..The fourth stage is that of the Cucurbitins, or separated segments.
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