Definitions for tenias

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tenias te·ni·a

Spelling: [tee-nee-uh]

IPA: /ˈti ni ə/

Tenias is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 174 anagrams from letters in tenias (aeinst).

Definitions for tenias

noun

1. taenia.
2. Classical Antiquity. a headband or fillet.
3. Architecture. (on a Doric entablature) a fillet or band separating the frieze from the architrave.
4. Anatomy. a ribbonlike structure, as certain bands of white nerve fibers in the brain.
5. any tapeworm of the genus Taenia, parasitic in humans and other mammals.

Origin of tenias

1555-65; Latin Greek tainía band, ribbon; (in def 4) New Latin, Latin, as above

Examples for tenias

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Above the frieze there is another narrow strip, or tenia, like that upon the architrave.