ORDER COCCIDIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does order Coccidia mean? 

• ORDER COCCIDIA (noun)
  The noun ORDER COCCIDIA has 1 sense:

1. an order in the subclass Telosporidia

  Familiarity information: ORDER COCCIDIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORDER COCCIDIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An order in the subclass Telosporidia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Coccidia; order Coccidia

Hypernyms ("order Coccidia" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "order 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 ("order Coccidia" is a member of...):

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