SPOROZOAN (sporozoa)
Dictionary entry overview: What does sporozoan mean?
• SPOROZOAN (noun)
The noun SPOROZOAN has 1 sense:
1. parasitic spore-forming protozoan
Familiarity information: SPOROZOAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• SPOROZOAN (noun)
Meaning:
Parasitic spore-forming protozoan
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("sporozoan" is a kind of...):
protozoan; protozoon (any of diverse minute acellular or unicellular organisms usually nonphotosynthetic)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sporozoan"):
myxosporidian (mostly parasitic in fishes and including various serious pathogens)
microsporidian (parasite of arthropods and fishes that invade and destroy host cells)
actinomyxidian (parasites of worms)
haplosporidian (parasite in invertebrates and lower vertebrates of no known economic importance)
sarcocystidean; sarcocystieian; sarcosporidian (parasite of the muscles of vertebrates)
piroplasm (minute parasite of red blood cells of mammals transmitted by a tick and causing diseases of domestic animals)
leucocytozoan; leucocytozoon (parasitic in birds)
haemoproteid (related to malaria parasite and having a phase in the viscera of various birds)
malaria parasite; plasmodium; Plasmodium vivax (parasitic protozoan of the genus Plasmodium that causes malaria in humans)
haemosporidian (minute protozoans parasitic at some stage of the life cycle in blood cells of vertebrates including many pathogens)
gregarine (vermiform protozoans parasitic in insects and other invertebrates)
coccidium; eimeria (parasitic on the digestive epithelium of vertebrates and higher invertebrates)
merozoite (a cell that arises from the asexual division of a parent sporozoan during its life cycle)
trophozoite (a sporozoan in the active feeding stage of its life cycle)
sporozoite (one of the minute active bodies into which sporozoans divide in one stage of their life cycle)
Holonyms ("sporozoan" is a member of...):
class Sporozoa; Sporozoa (strictly parasitic protozoans that are usually immobile; includes plasmodia and coccidia and piroplasms and malaria parasites)
