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HAEMOSPORIDIAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Minute protozoans parasitic at some stage of the life cycle in blood cells of vertebrates including many pathogens
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("haemosporidian" is a kind of...):
sporozoan (parasitic spore-forming protozoan)
Holonyms ("haemosporidian" is a member of...):
Haemosporidia; order Haemosporidia (an order in the subclass Telosporidia)