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発音

• (General American) enPR: tāpʹwûrm', IPA: /ˈteɪpˌwɝm/
• ハイフネーション: tape‧worm

名詞

tapeworm (countable and uncountable, plural tapeworms)

1. (countable) Any parasitical worm of the class or infraclass Cestoda, which infests the intestines of animals, including humans, often infecting different host species during their life cycle.
   1. (countable) A broad fish tapeworm, Diphyllobothrium latum.
2. (uncountable) Infection by tapeworms.
   • 1967, Senator Hill, United States. Congress. Senate, Labor--Health, Education, and Welfare appropriations for 1968: Hearings before the subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations‎, volume 8, page 1819:

     We used to have a lot of tapeworm down in my neck of the woods, but we don't have much now.

同意語

• (any species of class Cestoda): cestode

派生語

参考

• bladderworm
• measly
• proglottid
• scolex
• taenia
• taeniasis
• cysticercosis

動詞

tapeworm (third-person singular simple present tapeworms, present participle tapeworming, simple past and past participle tapewormed)

1. (intransitive) To move along in a wriggling manner, like a tapeworm.
2. (transitive) To treat (an animal) for tapeworm infection.

Further reading

• tapeworm on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• mop water, mopwater, pomwater