SporozoanWordNet Explorer

any of diverse minute acellular or unicellular organisms usually nonphotosynthetic

strictly parasitic protozoans that are usually immobile; includes plasmodia and coccidia and piroplasms and malaria parasites

one of the minute active bodies into which sporozoans divide in one stage of their life cycle

a sporozoan in the active feeding stage of its life cycle

a cell that arises from the asexual division of a parent sporozoan during its life cycle

parasitic on the digestive epithelium of vertebrates and higher invertebrates

vermiform protozoans parasitic in insects and other invertebrates

minute protozoans parasitic at some stage of the life cycle in blood cells of vertebrates including many pathogens