tri|chi|na

tri|chi|na «trih KY nuh», noun, plural -nae «-nee».

a small, slender nematode worm whose adult form lives in the intestines and whose larva lives in the muscles of man, hogs, and various other animals, causing trichinosis. Trichinae usually get into the human body from pork which is infected with the larvae and is not cooked long enough to destroy them.

╂[< New Latin trichina < Greek trichínē, feminine of tríchinos of or like hair < thríx, trichós a hair]