CNIDOSPORIDIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cnidosporidia mean? 

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

1. single-host parasites of lower vertebrates and invertebrates

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CNIDOSPORIDIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Single-host parasites of lower vertebrates and invertebrates

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Cnidosporidia; subclass Cnidosporidia

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

class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

Meronyms (members of "Cnidosporidia"):

Actinomyxidia; order Actinomyxidia (parasites of worms)

Mycrosporidia; order Mycrosporidia; Myxosporidia; order Myxosporidia (an order in the subclass Cnidosporidia)

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

class Sporozoa; Sporozoa (strictly parasitic protozoans that are usually immobile; includes plasmodia and coccidia and piroplasms and malaria parasites)