English English Dictionary

A denomination of money, in China, worth nearly six shillings sterling, or about a dollar and forty cents; also, a weight of one ounce and a third.

Alt. of Ta'en

A genus of intestinal worms which includes the common tapeworms of man. See Tapeworm.

A band; a structural line; -- applied to several bands and lines of nervous matter in the brain.

The fillet, or band, at the bottom of a Doric frieze, separating it from the architrave.

Same as Taenioidea.

of Taenia

A division of Ctenophora including those which have a long, ribbonlike body. The Venus's girdle is the most familiar example.

of Taenidium

The chitinous fiber forming the spiral thread of the tracheae of insects. See Illust. of Trachea.

An extensive division of gastropod mollusks in which the odontophore is long and narrow, and usually bears seven rows of teeth. It includes a large number of families both marine and fresh-water.

Of or pertaining to the Taenioglossa.

Ribbonlike; shaped like a ribbon.

Like or pertaining to Taenia.

The division of cestode worms which comprises the tapeworms. See Tapeworm.

One of the radial partitions which separate the internal cavities of certain medusae.

of Taeniola

An order of fishes remarkable for their long and compressed form. The ribbon fishes are examples. See Ribbon fish, under Ribbon.

See Taffrail.

Alt. of Taffety