Noun
(plural taenifuges)
- A medicine to expel tapeworms from a body.
- Pumpkin seeds have been used as a taenifuge, and the component that drives the worms out may be bitter resin.
Origin
From the Ancient Greek ταινία (tainia, “band, ribbon”) and fugo (“flee”) (from φεύγειν (phugein, “to flee”), related to φεύγω (pheugō, “I flee”).
