| pork tapeworm | Known formally as Taenia solium, contracted from undercooked or measly pork (pork infected with the larval forms of the tapeworm). Can grow to be 3-6 feet (0.9-1.8 m) long in the human intestine. Also known as the armed tapeworm and the measly tapeworm. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| porkwood | <botany> The coarse-grained brownish yellow wood of a small tree (Pisonia obtusata) of Florida and the West Indies. Also called pigeon wood, beefwood, and corkwood. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea pork | <zoology> An American compound ascidian (Amoraecium stellatum) which forms large whitish masses resembling salt pork. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| tapeworm, pork | See taenia solium (12 Dec 1998) |