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GREGARINE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Vermiform protozoans parasitic in insects and other invertebrates
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("gregarine" is a kind of...):
sporozoan (parasitic spore-forming protozoan)
Holonyms ("gregarine" is a member of...):
Gregarinida; order Gregarinida (an order in the subclass Telosporidia)