HAEMOSPORIDIA

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

An order in the subclass Telosporidia

Synonyms:

Haemosporidia; order Haemosporidia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Haemosporidia" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Haemosporidia"):

haemosporidian (minute protozoans parasitic at some stage of the life cycle in blood cells of vertebrates including many pathogens)

family Plasmodiidae; Plasmodiidae (malaria parasites)

family Haemoproteidae; Haemoproteidae (bird parasites)

Babesiidae; family Babesiidae (piroplasms and cattle pathogens)

Holonyms ("Haemosporidia" is a member of...):

subclass Telosporidia; Telosporidia (parasitic sporozoans that form spores containing one or more infective sporozoites)