Home › Words › T › taenicidetaenicidetaenicide means A medicine that destroys tapeworms.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, taenicide ranks #3,411 of 42,747 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom Latin taenia (“band, ribbon”), from Ancient Greek ταινία (tainía), + -cide (“killer”), from Latin -cīda.nounA medicine that destroys tapeworms.e.g.“The practice in Ethiopia of eating raw meat...has given rise...to a high incidence of taenia, or tapeworm. ... The commonest traditional taenicide was the blood-red flower of the kosso tree...” — The Traditional Taenicides of Ethiopia, by Richard Pankhust, in the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, XXIV(3):323-334, 1969Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.taeniacidal 84% match — Acting as a taeniacide; killing tapeworms. vs taenicide →taenifuge 83% match — A medicine to expel tapeworms from a body. vs taenicide →cesticidal 64% match — That kills cestodes vs taenicide →cestodocidal 63% match — cestocidal vs taenicide →cestocide 62% match — Any substance that kills cestodes vs taenicide →trypanocide 60% match — Any drug used to control or kill trypanosomes. vs taenicide →cesticide 60% match — cestocide vs taenicide →trypanocidal 60% match — That is destructive to trypanosomes. vs taenicide →