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parasitic spore-forming protozoan

↑sporozoite, ↑trophozoite, ↑merozoite, ↑coccidium, ↑eimeria, ↑gregarine, ↑haemosporidian, ↑plasmodium, ↑Plasmodium vivax, ↑malaria parasite, ↑haemoproteid, ↑leucocytozoan, ↑leucocytozoon, ↑piroplasm, ↑sarcosporidian, ↑sarcocystidean, ↑sarcocystieian, ↑haplosporidian, ↑actinomyxidian, ↑microsporidian, ↑myxosporidian

see sporozoa

/spawr'euh zoh"euhn, spohr'-/, n.

1. any parasitic spore-forming protozoan of the phylum (or class) Sporozoa, several species of which, as plasmodia, cause malaria.

2. Also, sporozoal. belonging or pertaining to the Sporozoa.

[1885-90; SPOROZO(A) + -AN]

sporozōˈan noun

Any parasitic protozoan of the class Sporozōˈa, reproducing by spores, including the causal organism of malaria (also adjective)

Main Entry: ↑spore