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gregarine
[ greg-uh-rahyn, -er-in ]
noun
- a type of sporozoan parasite that inhabits the digestive and other cavities of various invertebrates and produces cysts filled with spores.
adjective
- having the characteristics of or pertaining to a gregarine or gregarines.
gregarine
/ -rɪn; ˈɡrɛɡəˌriːn /
noun
- any parasitic protozoan of the order Gregarinida, typically occurring in the digestive tract and body cavity of other invertebrates: phylum Apicomplexa (sporozoans)
adjective
- of, relating to, or belonging to the Gregarinida
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Word History and Origins
Origin of gregarine1
1865–70; < New Latin Gregarina name of type, equivalent to Latin gregār ( ius ) ( gregarious ) + -īna -ine 1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of gregarine1
C19: from New Latin Gregarīna genus name, from Latin gregārius; see gregarious
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Example Sentences
These exceedingly small germ-cells afterwards develop into the very different, adult gregarine-cells.
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For at last they become an Acinetan or a Gregarine, exactly like the parent-cell from which they arose as embryos.
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Gromphadorhina portentosa Protozoan: Undetermined gregarine, p. 184.
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A gregarine, Diplocystis, in the haemocoele of the roach, Blaberus craniifer Burm.
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