cestode

From New Latin Cestoda, from cestus (“girdle, belt”), from Ancient Greek κεστός (kestós, “of Aphrodite’s charmed girdle”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛs.təʊd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛˌstoʊd/
• Rhymes: -əʊd

cestode (plural cestodes)

1. (zoology) A parasitic flatworm of the class Cestoda; a tapeworm.

• cestodal, cestocidal / cestodocidal

• “cestode”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “cestode”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

• codeset

cestode m (plural cestodi)

1. cestode

• Tedesco, codeste, tedesco