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PLASMODIUM

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: plasmodia   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Parasitic protozoan of the genus Plasmodium that causes malaria in humans

Synonyms:

malaria parasite; plasmodium; Plasmodium vivax

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

sporozoan (parasitic spore-forming protozoan)

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

genus Plasmodium (type genus of the family Plasmodiidae)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Multinucleate sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of such organisms as slime molds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

cytol; cytoplasm (the protoplasm of a cell excluding the nucleus; is full of proteins that control cell metabolism)

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