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sporozoon

sporozoon is the obsolete form of sporozoan.

Meaning of sporozoan

Noun

sporozoan (plural sporozoans)

  1. Any of many parasitic protozoans, of the class Sporozoa, that reproduce alternately sexually and asexually via spores; they are responsible for diseases such as malaria

Forms of sporozoon

pluralsporozoa

Questions about sporozoon

What is sporozoon the obsolete form of?
Sporozoon is the obsolete form of sporozoan.

Words near sporozoon in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sporozoon (page history and authors); sporozoan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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