gregarine
/greg-uh-rahyn, -er-in/US // ˈgrɛg əˌraɪn, -ər ɪn //UK // (ˈɡrɛɡəˌriːn, -rɪn) //
砾岩,砾石,砾石岩,砾石的
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a type of sporozoan parasite that inhabits the digestive and other cavities of various invertebrates and produces cysts filled with spores.
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : having the characteristics of or pertaining to a gregarine or gregarines.
Examples
These exceedingly small germ-cells afterwards develop into the very different, adult gregarine-cells.
For at last they become an Acinetan or a Gregarine, exactly like the parent-cell from which they arose as embryos.
Gromphadorhina portentosa Protozoan: Undetermined gregarine, p. 184.
A gregarine, Diplocystis, in the haemocoele of the roach, Blaberus craniifer Burm.
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