BABESIIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Babesiidae mean? 

• BABESIIDAE (noun)
  The noun BABESIIDAE has 1 sense:

1. piroplasms and cattle pathogens

  Familiarity information: BABESIIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BABESIIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Piroplasms and cattle pathogens

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Babesiidae; family Babesiidae

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

protoctist family (any of the families of Protoctista)

Meronyms (members of "Babesiidae"):

genus Babesia; genus Piroplasma (type genus of the family Babesiidae)

piroplasm (minute parasite of red blood cells of mammals transmitted by a tick and causing diseases of domestic animals)

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

Haemosporidia; order Haemosporidia (an order in the subclass Telosporidia)