Taenia /(?)/

Tae·ni·a

Taenia

n.

pl. Taeniae

  1. A genus of intestinal worms which includes the common tapeworms of man. See Tapeworm. (Zool.)
  2. A band; a structural line; -- applied to several bands and lines of nervous matter in the brain. (Anat.)
  3. The fillet, or band, at the bottom of a Doric frieze, separating it from the architrave. (Arch.)