coccidia

English Thesaurus

1. an order in the subclass Telosporidia (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	animal order,
definition	:	the order of animals (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	eimeriidae, family eimeriidae,
definition	:	a family of protoctist in the order Coccidia (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	coccidium, eimeria,
definition	:	parasitic on the digestive epithelium of vertebrates and higher invertebrates (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	subclass telosporidia, telosporidia,
definition	:	parasitic sporozoans that form spores containing one or more infective sporozoites (noun.animal)