GREGARINE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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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