a. (Also erron. tænoid.) [f. TÆNIA + -OID.] Of a ribbon-like shape; related to the tapeworms.
1836–9. Todd’s Cycl. Anat., II. 410/2. The Tænioid Sterelmintha furnish us one of the simplest examples of this arrangement.
1867. J. Hogg, Microsc., 363. The anterior extremity of a taen[i]oid worm is usually called the head.
1875. C. C. Blake, Zool., 327. The name Echinococcus is given to the hydatid cyst filled with the larvæ of tænioid worms.
