<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Classical Antiquity: a headband or fillet.</li><li>Architecture: (on a Doric entablature) a fillet or band separating the frieze from the architrave.</li><li>Anatomy: a ribbonlike structure, as certain bands of white nerve fibers in the brain.</li><li>Any tapeworm of the genus Taenia, parasitic in humans and other mammals.</li><li>Plural: taeniae [tee, -nee-ee].</li></ul>