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GREGARINE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does gregarine mean?
• GREGARINE (noun)
The noun GREGARINE has 1 sense:
1. vermiform protozoans parasitic in insects and other invertebrates
Familiarity information: GREGARINE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Vermiform protozoans parasitic in insects and other invertebrates
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("gregarine" is a kind of...):
sporozoan (parasitic spore-forming protozoan)
Holonyms ("gregarine" is a member of...):
Gregarinida; order Gregarinida (an order in the subclass Telosporidia)
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