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Noun: Sporozoa
  1. Strictly parasitic protozoans that are usually immobile; includes plasmodia and coccidia and piroplasms and malaria parasites
    - class Sporozoa
Noun: sporozoan (sporozoa,sporozoans)
  1. Parasitic spore-forming protozoan
    "Malaria is caused by a sporozoan of the genus Plasmodium"

Type of: class, protozoan, protozoon

Part of: phylum Protozoa, Protozoa

Encyclopedia: Sporozoa

Sporozoan