Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The knoblike anterior end of a tapeworm, having suckers or hooklike parts that in the adult stage serve as organs of attachment to the host on which the tapeworm is parasitic.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun PI. scoleces (skō˙-lē′ sēz), erroneously scolices (skol′ i-sēz). In Scolecida, the larva produced from the egg, which may by gemmation give rise to infertile deutoscoleces, or to ovigerous proglottides; the embryo of an entozoic worm, as a fluke or tape; a cystic worm or cysticercus; a hydatid. See cuts under
Tænia . - noun [capitalized] An old genus of worms.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The embryo produced directly from the egg in a metagenetic series, especially the larva of a tapeworm or other parasitic worm. See
Illust. ofechinococcus . - noun One of the Scolecida.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The structure at the rear end of a
tapeworm which, in the adult, hassuckers andhooks by which it attaches itself to ahost .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Adults are dorso-ventrally flattened but unlike other flatworms possess is an anterior, suckered head region called a scolex for attachment to their host.
Platyhelminthes 2007
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Behind the scolex is the narrow neck which is proliferative (produces all each segment) and gives rise to the body segments called strobila.
Platyhelminthes 2007
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Almost all of the tapeworm's metabolism is dedicated to reproduction; inside the scolex is a complete set of male and female reproductive organs.
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Almost all of the tapeworm's metabolism is dedicated to reproduction; inside the scolex is a complete set of male and female reproductive organs.
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Almost all of the tapeworm's metabolism is dedicated to reproduction; inside the scolex is a complete set of male and female reproductive organs.
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Almost all of the tapeworm's metabolism is dedicated to reproduction; inside the scolex is a complete set of male and female reproductive organs.
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Almost all of the tapeworm's metabolism is dedicated to reproduction; inside the scolex is a complete set of male and female reproductive organs.
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Almost all of the tapeworm's metabolism is dedicated to reproduction; inside the scolex is a complete set of male and female reproductive organs.
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Almost all of the taeworm's metabolism is dedicated to reproduction; inside the scolex is a complete set of male and female reproductive organs.
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Almost all of the taeworm's metabolism is dedicated to reproduction; inside the scolex is a complete set of male and female reproductive organs.
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