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noun
Any of many parasitic protozoans, of the class Sporozoa, that reproduce alternately sexually and asexually via spores; they are responsible for diseases such as malaria
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
parasitic spore-forming protozoan
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: protozoan, protozoon
Narrower terms: sporozoite, trophozoite, merozoite, coccidium, eimeria, gregarine, haemosporidian, plasmodium, Plasmodium vivax, malaria parasite, haemoproteid, leucocytozoan, leucocytozoon, piroplasm, sarcosporidian, sarcocystidean, sarcocystieian, haplosporidian, actinomyxidian, microsporidian, myxosporidian
History
Sporozoa + -an
