Definitions for tapeworm

tapeworm tape·worm

Spelling: [teyp-wurm]
IPA: /ˈteɪpˌwɜrm/

Tapeworm is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 368 anagrams from letters in tapeworm (aemoprtw).

Definitions for tapeworm

noun

  1. any of various flat or tapelike worms of the class Cestoidea, lacking an alimentary canal, and parasitic when adult in the alimentary canal of humans and other vertebrates: the larval and adult stages are usually in different hosts.

Origin of tapeworm

First recorded in 1745-55; tape + worm

Examples for tapeworm

It came from the possession of a tapeworm, as before stated.

By wine-glassfuls, fasting, until it excites slight nausea; as a vermifuge, more particularly for tapeworm.

When treating patients for tapeworm I have repeatedly expelled the whipworm.

This tapeworm (T. expansa) is also very prevalent in Germany.

The natives take a decoction of kousso once a month as a cure for the tapeworm.

This remedy for tapeworm has been recently introduced into Europe.

"Health-care costs in this country are a tapeworm of American business," he continued.

There is one which I have already mentioned, that is the tnia, or tapeworm.

These remedies have been used for tapeworm for almost 100 years.

The dose of the powder found sufficient for the expulsion of the tapeworm was from seven or eight to thirty grains.

Word Value for tapeworm
Scrable

15

Words with friends

17

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