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FAMILY BABESIIDAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does family Babesiidae mean?
• FAMILY BABESIIDAE (noun)
The noun FAMILY BABESIIDAE has 1 sense:
1. piroplasms and cattle pathogens
Familiarity information: FAMILY BABESIIDAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Piroplasms and cattle pathogens
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Babesiidae; family Babesiidae
Hypernyms ("family Babesiidae" is a kind of...):
protoctist family (any of the families of Protoctista)
Meronyms (members of "family Babesiidae"):
genus Babesia; genus Piroplasma (type genus of the family Babesiidae)
piroplasm (minute parasite of red blood cells of mammals transmitted by a tick and causing diseases of domestic animals)
Holonyms ("family Babesiidae" is a member of...):
Haemosporidia; order Haemosporidia (an order in the subclass Telosporidia)
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