GENUS TAENIA

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Meaning:

Type genus of the family Taeniidae: tapeworms

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("genus Taenia" is a kind of...):

worm genus (a genus of worms)

Meronyms (members of "genus Taenia"):

taenia (tapeworms parasitic in humans which uses the pig as its intermediate host)

Holonyms ("genus Taenia" is a member of...):

family Taeniidae; Taeniidae (a family of Cestoda)

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