SPOROZOAN (sporozoa)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: sporozoa   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does sporozoan mean? 

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

1. parasitic spore-forming protozoan

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPOROZOAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Parasitic spore-forming protozoan

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

protozoan; protozoon (any of diverse minute acellular or unicellular organisms usually nonphotosynthetic)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sporozoan"):

sporozoite (one of the minute active bodies into which sporozoans divide in one stage of their life cycle)

trophozoite (a sporozoan in the active feeding stage of its life cycle)

merozoite (a cell that arises from the asexual division of a parent sporozoan during its life cycle)

coccidium; eimeria (parasitic on the digestive epithelium of vertebrates and higher invertebrates)

gregarine (vermiform protozoans parasitic in insects and other invertebrates)

haemosporidian (minute protozoans parasitic at some stage of the life cycle in blood cells of vertebrates including many pathogens)

malaria parasite; plasmodium; Plasmodium vivax (parasitic protozoan of the genus Plasmodium that causes malaria in humans)

haemoproteid (related to malaria parasite and having a phase in the viscera of various birds)

leucocytozoan; leucocytozoon (parasitic in birds)

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

sarcocystidean; sarcocystieian; sarcosporidian (parasite of the muscles of vertebrates)

haplosporidian (parasite in invertebrates and lower vertebrates of no known economic importance)

actinomyxidian (parasites of worms)

microsporidian (parasite of arthropods and fishes that invade and destroy host cells)

myxosporidian (mostly parasitic in fishes and including various serious pathogens)

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

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