GIARDIA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A suspected cause of diarrhea in humans

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

flagellate; flagellate protozoan; flagellated protozoan; mastigophoran; mastigophore (a usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some are pathogens of humans and other animals)

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

genus Giardia (flagellates parasitic in intestines of vertebrates)

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