Cestoidea

Translingual

Etymology

From Latin cestus (“girdle, tie, belt”) +‎ -oidea (taxonomic suffix).

Proper noun

Cestoidea

1. Certain flatworms
   1. (obsolete) A taxonomic order within the phylum Platyhelminthes – Synonym of Cestoda (“ranked as order”).
   2. (archaic) A taxonomic order within the class Cestoda.

Descendants

• → English: cestoid
• ⇒ English: cestoidean

References

• “Cestoidea”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• Cestoda on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Cestoda on Wikipedia.Wikipedia