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COCCIDIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Coccidia mean?
• COCCIDIA (noun)
The noun COCCIDIA has 1 sense:
1. an order in the subclass Telosporidia
Familiarity information: COCCIDIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An order in the subclass Telosporidia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Coccidia; order Coccidia
Hypernyms ("Coccidia" is a kind of...):
animal order (the order of animals)
Meronyms (members of "Coccidia"):
Eimeriidae; family Eimeriidae (a family of protoctist in the order Coccidia)
coccidium; eimeria (parasitic on the digestive epithelium of vertebrates and higher invertebrates)
Holonyms ("Coccidia" is a member of...):
subclass Telosporidia; Telosporidia (parasitic sporozoans that form spores containing one or more infective sporozoites)
Context examples
A parasitic infection caused by Coccidia.
(Coccidiosis, NCI Thesaurus)
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