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GENUS LEISHMANIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Leishmania mean?
• GENUS LEISHMANIA (noun)
The noun GENUS LEISHMANIA has 1 sense:
1. flagellate protozoan that causes leishmaniasis
Familiarity information: GENUS LEISHMANIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Flagellate protozoan that causes leishmaniasis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
genus Leishmania; Leishmania
Hypernyms ("genus Leishmania" is a kind of...):
flagellate; flagellate protozoan; flagellated protozoan; mastigophoran; mastigophore (a usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some are pathogens of humans and other animals)
Context examples
A parasitic infection caused by protozoa of the genus Leishmania.
(Leishmaniasis, NCI Thesaurus)
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