Cestoidea

Translingual

Etymology

From Latin cestus (“girdle, tie, belt”) +‎ -oidea (taxonomic suffix).

Proper noun

Cestoidea

  1. Certain flatworms
    1. (obsolete) A taxonomic order within the phylum Platyhelminthes – synonym of Cestoda (“ranked as order”).
    2. (archaic) A taxonomic order within the class Cestoda.

Descendants

  • → English: cestoid
  • ⇒ English: cestoidean

References

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