Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

taenicide

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: taeni-cide
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A medicine that destroys tapeworms.

Example Sentences

"The practice in Ethiopia of eating raw meat...has given rise...to a high incidence of taenia, or tapeworm. ... The commonest traditional taenicide was the blood-red flower of the kosso tree..."
"If we are not mistaken, this is one of the popular Russian remedies...It is not necessary to take cathartics, simply eating a whole cocoanut being sufficient."
"Results obtained with known taenicides and taenifuges are tabled, analysed and compared with their action against the tapeworms of larger animals including man."

Etymology

From Latin taenia (“band, ribbon”), from Ancient Greek ταινία (tainía), + -cide (“killer”), from Latin -cīda.

Origin

Source language: Ancient Greek

Word Breakdown

Root: ταινία, -cīda
Suffix: la:taenia, cide

Inflected Forms

taenicides (plural) tænicide (alternative) taeniacide (alternative) tenicide (alternative) teniacide (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

taenifuge taeniasis vermifuge anthelmintic

Questions

What does taenicide mean?: A medicine that destroys tapeworms.
Where does taenicide come from?: It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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