/tee"nee euh/ , n. , pl. taeniae /-nee ee'/ .
1. Class. Antiq. a headband or fillet.
2. Archit. (on a Doric entablature) a fillet or band separating the frieze from the architrave.
3. Anat. a ribbonlike structure, as certain bands of white nerve fibers in the brain.
4. any tapeworm of the genus Taenia, parasitic in humans and other mammals.
Also, tenia .
[ 1555-65; tainía band, ribbon; (in def. 4) ]