protozoon
Americannoun
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protozoa
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of protozoon
Singular of Protozoa
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Some symptoms of kala-azar are like those of malaria, but the invading parasite is different: a protozoon named Leishmania donovani.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Anopheline mosquito bites a person and injects the malaria organism, a protozoon about one-fifth the size of a red blood cell.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is convinced that human cancers are caused by a similar infection, though no active parasite, either bacterium or protozoon, has yet been found.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cause of the disease is a trypanosome, protozoon which under the microscope resembles an auger.
From Time Magazine Archive
The other protozoon was Vorticella monilata, Tatem, which has been found, not in association with Hydra, in Europe and S. America.
From Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Nelson Annandale
The host of life on ice includes bacteria, viruses, fungi, protozoa, even microscopic animals like nematodes, some dead and some alive in suspended animation.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2025
It seems miraculous that, over billions of years, our planetary circumstances enabled protozoa to evolve into people.
From New York Times ● Nov. 12, 2023
Bottom line: If you must have tropical milkweed, cut it down to the ground each fall before it goes to seed, to kill any overwintering protozoa and reduce its potential to spread to neighboring areas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2023
Food turns into compost through the hard work of small microorganisms like bacteria, fungi, and protozoa.
From National Geographic ● Sep. 26, 2023
Insects are beset not only by viruses and bacteria but also by fungi, protozoa, microscopic worms, and other beings from all that unseen world of minute life that, by and large, befriends mankind.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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