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HAEMOSPORIDIA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An order in the subclass Telosporidia

Synonyms:

Haemosporidia; order Haemosporidia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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)

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