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sporozoa


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Sporozoa  \Spo`ro*zo"a\,  n.  pl  [NL.,  from  Gr  spo`ros  a  spore  + 
  zo^,on  an  animal.]  (Zo["o]l.) 
  An  extensive  division  of  parasitic  Protozoa,  which  increase 
  by  sporulation.  It  includes  the  Gregarinida. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  Sporozoa 
  n  :  strictly  parasitic  protozoans  that  are  usually  immobile; 
  includes  plasmodia  and  coccidia  and  piroplasms  and 
  malaria  parasites  [syn:  {Sporozoa},  {class  Sporozoa}] 




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