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Noun: haemoproteid
Usage: Brit, Cdn (US: hemoproteid)
  1. Related to malaria parasite and having a phase in the viscera of various birds
    "Haemoproteids can cause anaemia in infected birds";
    - hemoproteid [N. Amer]

Derived forms: haemoproteids

Type of: sporozoan

Part of: family Haemoproteidae, Haemoproteidae