Cyclophyllidea

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Translingual

Etymology

From English cyclo- +‎ English phyllo- +‎ -idea, from Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos, ring, circle) +‎ φύλλον (phúllon, leaf).

Proper noun

Cyclophyllidea

  1. Tapeworms with four suckers on the scolex and the vitellaria condensed into a mass adjacent to the ovary and that includes most of the medically and economically important tapeworms of the higher vertebrates:
    1. A taxonomic order within the subclass Neodermata.[1]
    2. A taxonomic order within the subclass Eucestoda.

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Descendants

  • English: cyclophyllid
  • English: cyclophyllidean

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, →DOI