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noun
A protozoan cell, produced by a sporozoan by merogony, that may become either a meront or a gamont
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences
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noun
a cell that arises from the asexual division of a parent sporozoan during its life cycle
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: sporozoan
History
From mero- + -zoite.
