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Friday 28 September 2018

Word To Use Today: taenia/tenia.

Okay, a taenia (a tenia in the USA) can be either a narrow hairband of the sort fashionable in Ancient Greece:

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illustration by Carl Rohrbach and Albert Kretschmer

 or a strip above a line of columns.


The taenia (you can only see it as a shadow) is between the groups of little triangular thingies. 

So now: tell me what a taeniacide does, if you're so clever.

Word To Use Today: taenia. This word comes from Latin from the Greek tainia, a narrow strip, related to teinein, to stretch.

And a taeniacide?

It kills tapeworms. 

You can see the connection, but did you guess? 

I didn't!

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