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Definition of Cestoids
1. cestoid [n] - See also: cestoid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cestoids
Literary usage of Cestoids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Natural History: A Manual of Zoology for Schools, Colleges, and the General by Sanborn Tenney (1872)
"They occur in all the classes of vertebrates ; and generally different species
are inhabited by different species of cestoids ; and sometimes two or three ..."
2. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science edited by Biologists Limited, The Company of. (1870)
"... to the cestoids; and we must not suppose that in these embryos with prickles
we have the homologue of the six-hooked embryo of the Band-worms. ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... and has a life-history closely parallel to that of the cestoids. The adult
form is found in the frontal sinu. of tho dog or wolf; the embryos pass ..."
4. The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, Or, Quarterly Journal of (1865)
"or other of these vesicular cestoids, in Iceland the latter are met with in 81
per cent., or in four dogs in five. T. marginata occurs 4, ..."
5. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society by Royal Microscopical Society, London (1882)
"As containing a revised account of two rather aberrant cestoids, presenting many
noteworthy ... These cestoids, when mature, inhabit the gut of water-birds. ..."
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