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sporozoites

sporozoites is the plural of sporozoite.

Meaning of sporozoite

Noun

sporozoite (plural sporozoites)

  1. Any of the minute active bodies into which a sporozoan divides just before it infects a new host cell.
    • Ross […] was then able to outline its history within the mosquito: first, as a zygote in the stomach; then as an oocyst in the stomach wall; and finally as a mature sporozoite that reaches first the proboscis and then a human host when the insect bites and squirts its saliva prior to sucking blood.1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 453
    Synonyms:
    zoite

Questions about sporozoites

What is sporozoites the plural of?
Sporozoites is the plural of sporozoite.

Words near sporozoites in the dictionary

  1. sporozoan
  2. sporozoans
  3. sporozoid
  4. sporozoids
  5. sporozoite
  6. sporozoites
  7. sporozoitic
  8. sporozoon
  9. sporran
  10. sporraned
  11. sporrans

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