sporozoan noun & adjective. [spɔ:rǝ'zǝʊǝn, spɒ-] L19.
[from mod. Latin Sporozoa (see below), formed as SPORO- + Greek zōia pl. of zōion animal: see -AN.]
Biology & Medicine.
A. noun. A protozoan of the mainly parasitic phyla Apicomplexa (which includes class Sporozoa) and Microspora, having a complex life cycle with sexual and asexual generations and including the malaria parasites (genus Plasmodium). L19.
b. adjective. Of or pertaining to such protozoans. L19.

■ sporozoon noun, pl. -zoa, = SPOROZOAN noun (usu. in pl.) L19.

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