Echinococcus

Translingual

Echinococcus granulosus

Etymology

From English echino- (“sea urchin, prickle”) +‎ English -coccus (“spherical microorganism”), from Ancient Greek ἐχῖνος (ekhînos, “hedgehog, sea urchin”) +‎ κόκκος (kókkos, “grain, seed”).

Proper noun

Echinococcus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Taeniidae – tapeworms that alternate a minute adult living as a commensal in the intestine of carnivores with a hydatid larva invading tissues especially of the liver of cattle, sheep, swine, and humans and acting as a dangerous pathogen.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Protostomia - infrakingdom; Spiralia - superphylum; Platyhelminthes - phylum; Rhabditophora - subphylum; Neoophora - class; Neodermata - subclass; Cestoda - infraclass; Cyclophyllidea - order; Taeniidae - family

Hyponyms

• (genus): Echinococcus granulosus, Echinococcus multilocularis - selected species

Descendants

• → English: echinococcus

References

• Echinococcus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Echinococcus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Echinococcus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Echinococcus at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• “Echinococcus”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.