Tadpole fish. (Zoöl.) See Forkbeard (a).
||Tæ"di*um (?), n. [L.] See Tedium.
||
Tael (?), n. [Malay ta&?;l, a certain weight, probably fr. Hind. tola,
Skr. tul a balance, weight, tul to weigh.] A denomination of money, in
China, worth nearly six shillings sterling, or about a dollar and forty
cents; also, a weight of one ounce and a third. [Written also tale.]
{ Taen (?), or Ta'en }, p. p. of Ta, to take, or a contraction of
Taken. [Poetic & Scot.] Burns.
||Tæ"ni*a (?), n.; pl. Tæniæ (#). [L., a ribbon, a tapeworm.] 1.
||(Zoöl.) A genus of intestinal worms which includes the common
||tapeworms of man. See Tapeworm.
||
2. (Anat.) A band; a structural line; — applied to several bands and
lines of nervous matter in the brain.
3. (Arch.) The fillet, or band, at the bottom of a Doric frieze,
separating it from the architrave.
||Tæ*ni"a*da (?), n. pl. [NL.] (Zoöl.) Same as Tænioidea.
||
||Tæ`ni*a"ta (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. L. taenia a ribbon.] (Zoöl.) A
||division of Ctenophora including those which have a long, ribbonlike
||body. The Venus's girdle is the most familiar example.
||
||Tæ*nid"i*um (?), n.; pl. Tænidia (#). [NL., dim. fr. L. taenia a
||ribbon.] (Zoöl.) The chitinous fiber forming the spiral thread of the
||tracheæ of insects. See Illust. of Trachea.
||
||Tæ`ni*o*glos"sa (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; a ribbon + &?; a
||tongue.] (Zoöl.) An extensive division of gastropod mollusks in which
||the odontophore is long and narrow, and usually bears seven rows of
||teeth. It includes a large number of families both marine and
||fresh-water.
||
Tæ`ni*o*glos"sate (?), a. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Tænioglossa.
Tæ"ni*oid (?), a. [Tænia + -oid.] 1. Ribbonlike; shaped like a ribbon.