TELOSPORIDIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Telosporidia mean? 

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

1. parasitic sporozoans that form spores containing one or more infective sporozoites

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TELOSPORIDIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Parasitic sporozoans that form spores containing one or more infective sporozoites

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

subclass Telosporidia; Telosporidia

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Telosporidia"):

Coccidia; order Coccidia; Gregarinida; order Gregarinida; Haemosporidia; order Haemosporidia (an order in the subclass Telosporidia)

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

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