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Echinococcus

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Noun

1. echinococcus

tapeworms whose larvae are parasitic in humans and domestic animals

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Echinococcus

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noun
any of the tapeworms constituting the genus Echinococcus, the larvae of which are parasitic in man and domestic animals

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Echinococcus

see synonyms of echinococcus
noun
any of a genus (Echinococcus) of tapeworms that cause disease in mammals
see also hydatid

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Echinococcus

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n. pl. e·chi·no·coc·ci (-kŏksī′, -kŏkī′)
Any of several parasitic tapeworms of the genus Echinococcus, the larvae of which infect mammals and form large, spherical cysts in the liver or lungs, causing serious or fatal disease.

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