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PLASMODIUM
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Irregular inflected form: plasmodia
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Parasitic protozoan of the genus Plasmodium that causes malaria in humans
Synonyms:
malaria parasite; plasmodium; Plasmodium vivax
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("plasmodium" is a kind of...):
sporozoan (parasitic spore-forming protozoan)
Holonyms ("plasmodium" is a member of...):
genus Plasmodium (type genus of the family Plasmodiidae)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Multinucleate sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of such organisms as slime molds
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("plasmodium" is a kind of...):
cytol; cytoplasm (the protoplasm of a cell excluding the nucleus; is full of proteins that control cell metabolism)
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