sporozoan
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1. parasitic spore-forming protozoan (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | protozoan, protozoon, |
| definition | : | any of diverse minute acellular or unicellular organisms usually nonphotosynthetic (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | sporozoite, |
| definition | : | one of the minute active bodies into which sporozoans divide in one stage of their life cycle (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | trophozoite, |
| definition | : | a sporozoan in the active feeding stage of its life cycle (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | merozoite, |
| definition | : | a cell that arises from the asexual division of a parent sporozoan during its life cycle (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | coccidium, eimeria, |
| definition | : | parasitic on the digestive epithelium of vertebrates and higher invertebrates (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | gregarine, |
| definition | : | vermiform protozoans parasitic in insects and other invertebrates (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | haemosporidian, |
| definition | : | minute protozoans parasitic at some stage of the life cycle in blood cells of vertebrates including many pathogens (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | haemoproteid, |
| definition | : | related to malaria parasite and having a phase in the viscera of various birds (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | piroplasm, |
| definition | : | minute parasite of red blood cells of mammals transmitted by a tick and causing diseases of domestic animals (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | haplosporidian, |
| definition | : | parasite in invertebrates and lower vertebrates of no known economic importance (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | microsporidian, |
| definition | : | parasite of arthropods and fishes that invade and destroy host cells (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | myxosporidian, |
| definition | : | mostly parasitic in fishes and including various serious pathogens (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | class sporozoa, sporozoa, |
| definition | : | strictly parasitic protozoans that are usually immobile; includes plasmodia and coccidia and piroplasms and malaria parasites (noun.animal) |
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