Usually means: Parasitic worm, lives in intestines.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. tapeworm: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tapeworm: Merriam-Webster
  3. tapeworm: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tapeworm: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tapeworm: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tapeworm: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tapeworm, tapeworm: Wordnik
  8. tapeworm: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. tapeworm: Wiktionary
  10. tapeworm: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tapeworm: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tapeworm: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. tapeworm: Dictionary.com
  14. tapeworm: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. tapeworm: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Tapeworm (band), Tapeworm (invertebrate), Tapeworm: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Tapeworm: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. tapeworm: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. tapeworm: Rhymezone
  20. Tapeworm: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. tapeworm: FreeDictionary.org
  22. tapeworm: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. tapeworm: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tapeworm (disambiguation), Tapeworm (invertebrate), tapeworm: Encyclopedia

Medicine (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. tapeworm: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Tapeworm: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Tapeworm: MedFriendly Glossary
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Tapeworm (disambiguation), Tapeworm (invertebrate), tapeworm: Medical dictionary
  7. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)
  8. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  9. Tapeworm: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tapeworm: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See tapeworms as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable) Any parasitical worm of the class or infraclass Cestoda, which infest the intestines of animals, including humans, often infecting different host species during their life cycle.
noun:  (countable) A broad fish tapeworm, Diphyllobothrium latum.
noun:  (uncountable) Infection by tapeworms.
verb:  (intransitive) To move along in a wriggling manner, like a tapeworm.
verb:  (transitive) To treat (an animal) for tapeworm infection.

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