plasmodia
- plural of plasmodium.
Example Sentences
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The pulsating blobs of Texas-backyard mystery are plasmodia — multinucleate masses that course the forest until conditions are just right for them to form the colorful fruiting bodies full of spores.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2020
Neither plant nor animal, these single-cell amoebas feed on bacteria but aggregate when their food source becomes scarce to form glossy, bulbous, shape-shifting multicellular plasmodia that develop fruiting bodies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2015
No known chemical kills plasmodia in the form mosquitoes deliver to man.
From Time Magazine Archive
First the plasmodia enter the oxygen-bearing red blood cells.
From Time Magazine Archive
We may well wonder: Why did not Laveran simply recognize those sexual forms, and why did he not seek for the period of conjugation in the plasmodia, which were animal micro-organisms?
From Spontaneous Activity in Education by Montessori, Maria
