HAEMOSPORIDIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does haemosporidian mean? 

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

1. minute protozoans parasitic at some stage of the life cycle in blood cells of vertebrates including many pathogens

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAEMOSPORIDIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Minute protozoans parasitic at some stage of the life cycle in blood cells of vertebrates including many pathogens

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

sporozoan (parasitic spore-forming protozoan)

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

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