HAEMOSPORIDIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Haemosporidia mean? 

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

1. an order in the subclass Telosporidia

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAEMOSPORIDIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An order in the subclass Telosporidia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Haemosporidia; order Haemosporidia

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

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Haemosporidia"):

haemosporidian (minute protozoans parasitic at some stage of the life cycle in blood cells of vertebrates including many pathogens)

family Plasmodiidae; Plasmodiidae (malaria parasites)

family Haemoproteidae; Haemoproteidae (bird parasites)

Babesiidae; family Babesiidae (piroplasms and cattle pathogens)

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

subclass Telosporidia; Telosporidia (parasitic sporozoans that form spores containing one or more infective sporozoites)