taenia

Other forms of taenia

plural

taeniae

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about taenia

What does taenia mean?

taenia means "a narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in taenia?

taenia has 4 syllables: ta-e-ni-a. The stress falls on "e".

What is another word for taenia?

Close synonyms include tenia, fillet. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is taenia a common word?

taenia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.