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- Ancient Greek · derived fromτρίχινος“of hair”
- English todaytrichina
From New Latin, from Ancient Greek τρίχινος (tríkhinos, “of hair”), from θρίξ (thríx, “hair”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
trichina
Today it means: Any of several parasitic roundworms, of the genus Trichinella, that infect the intestines and cause trichinosis Full definition →
Ancient Greek τρίχινος