Clues for the word "TAPEWORM"
We've had 9 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 12 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on September 13, 2024.
Definition of tapeworm
- n. - Any one of numerous species of cestode worms belonging to Taenia and many allied genera. The body is long, flat, and composed of numerous segments or proglottids varying in shape, those toward the end of the body being much larger and longer than the anterior ones, and containing the fully developed sexual organs. The head is small, destitute of a mouth, but furnished with two or more suckers (which vary greatly in shape in different genera), and sometimes, also, with hooks for adhesion to the walls of the intestines of the animals in which they are parasitic. The larvae (see Cysticercus) live in the flesh of various creatures, and when swallowed by another animal of the right species develop into the mature tapeworm in its intestine. See Illustration in Appendix.
Referring Clues
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 13, 2024
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - August 19, 2016
- USA Today - February 20, 2015
- Guardian Quick - August 02, 2011
- Guardian Quick - September 16, 2010
- Guardian Quick - November 11, 2006
- Guardian Speedy - June 25, 2006
- Guardian Cryptic - January 26, 2006
- Washington Post - December 15, 2005
- Guardian Quick - December 06, 2005
- Guardian Quick - October 01, 2005
- Guardian Cryptic - January 24, 2002