taenia

taenia is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

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  1. 1.(Anat.) A band; a structural line; -- applied to several bands and lines of nervous matter in the brain.
  2. 2.(Arch.) The fillet, or band, at the bottom of a Doric frieze, separating it from the architrave.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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