TRICHOMONAD

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause of trichomoniasis in women and cattle and birds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("trichomonad" 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 ("trichomonad" is a member of...):

genus Trichomonas (flagellates parasitic in alimentary or genitourinary tracts of vertebrates and invertebrates including humans)

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