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Webster 1913 Edition


Taenidium

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Tae-nid′i-um

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Noun.
;
pl.
Taenidia
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[NL., dim. fr. L.
taenia
a ribbon.]
(Zool.)
The chitinous fiber forming the spiral thread of the tracheae of insects. See Illust. of
Trachea
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