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trypanosome

noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

Any of a group of protozoan parasites which are transmitted by biting insects and infect the blood of humans and other vertebrates; family Trypanosomatidae in class Kinetoplastea

Any of genus Trypanosoma, of family Trypanosomatidae, including

Trypanosoma brucei, a major human pathogen that causes sleeping sickness.

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Meaning 2

Any of a group of protozoan parasites which are transmitted by biting insects and infect the blood of humans and other vertebrates; family Trypanosomatidae in class Kinetoplastea

Any of genus Trypanosoma, of family Trypanosomatidae, including

Trypanosoma cruzi, a major human pathogen that causes Chagas disease.

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Meaning 3

Any of a group of protozoan parasites which are transmitted by biting insects and infect the blood of humans and other vertebrates; family Trypanosomatidae in class Kinetoplastea

Trypomastigotes, a morphological class of trypanosomatids with a flagellum laterally attached to the cell body.

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History

Etymology

Learned borrowing from translingual Trypanosoma. By surface analysis, trypano- + -some.

Across languages

Translations

18 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: مِثْقَبِيَة (miṯqabiya) — any of a group of protozoan parasites transmitted by biting insects
  • Belarusian: трыпанасо́ма (trypanasóma) — any of a group of protozoan parasites transmitted by biting insects
  • Bulgarian: трипанозома (tripanozoma) — any of a group of protozoan parasites transmitted by biting insects
  • Catalan: tripanosoma — any of a group of protozoan parasites transmitted by biting insects
  • Chinese Mandarin: 睡眠蟲 /睡眠虫 (shuìmiánchóng) — any of a group of protozoan parasites transmitted by biting insects
  • Czech: trypanozoma — any of a group of protozoan parasites transmitted by biting insects
  • Finnish: trypanosooma — any of a group of protozoan parasites transmitted by biting insects
  • French: trypanosome — any of a group of protozoan parasites transmitted by biting insects
  • German: Trypanosoma — any of a group of protozoan parasites transmitted by biting insects
  • Greek: τρυπανόσωμα (trypanósoma) — any of a group of protozoan parasites transmitted by biting insects
  • Irish: tripineasóm — any of a group of protozoan parasites transmitted by biting insects
  • Italian: tripanosoma — any of a group of protozoan parasites transmitted by biting insects
  • Polish: świdrowiec — any of a group of protozoan parasites transmitted by biting insects
  • Polish: trypanosom — any of a group of protozoan parasites transmitted by biting insects
  • Portuguese: tripanossoma — any of a group of protozoan parasites transmitted by biting insects
  • Portuguese: tripanossomo — any of a group of protozoan parasites transmitted by biting insects
  • Russian: трипаносо́ма (tripanosóma) — any of a group of protozoan parasites transmitted by biting insects
  • Spanish: tripanosoma — any of a group of protozoan parasites transmitted by biting insects