Definition of Cestoid

1. a. Of or pertaining to the Cestoidea.

Definition of Cestoid

1. Noun. Any of the parasitic flatworms of the class Cestoda. ¹

2. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the Cestoidea; cestoidean ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cestoid

1. cestode [n -S] - See also: cestode

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cestoid

cesspipes
cesspit
cesspits
cesspool
cesspools
cesstibtantite
cesta
cestas
cesti
cestoda
cestode
cestode infections
cestodes
cestodiasis
cestoi
cestoid (current term)
cestoidean
cestoideans
cestoids
cestos
cestoses
cestraciont
cestuan
cestui
cestuis
cestus
cestuses
cesura
cesurae
cesural

Literary usage of Cestoid

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People by Chambers, W. and R., publ (1876)
"The division into segmenta remains imperfect in some cestoid worms. ... The shell being broken or digested, the young cestoid worm is set free. ..."

2. On Human Entozoa: Comprising the Description of the Different Species of by William Abbotts Smith (1863)
"It is probable that the administration by the mouth of the dilute acids would fulfil the same indication. CHAPTER V. THE cestoid "W OEMS FOUND IN THE HUMAN ..."

3. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1850)
"This leads us to give an abstract of his notice of a new genus of cestoid Worms, and of a proposed amended arrangement of them. M. Beneden discovered the ..."

4. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society by Royal Microscopical Society, London (1878)
"A New cestoid Host.—Dr. August Gruber, of Freiburg, relates that on accidentally crushing a specimen of Cyclops ..."

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