giardia

English Thesaurus

1. a suspected cause of diarrhea in humans (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	flagellate, flagellate protozoan, flagellated protozoan, mastigophoran, mastigophore,
definition	:	a usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some are pathogens of humans and other animals (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	genus giardia,
definition	:	flagellates parasitic in intestines of vertebrates (noun.animal)