Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various apicomplexan protozoans that are parasitic within the digestive tract and body cavity of invertebrates, including many insects and mollusks.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the characters of a gregarina; pertaining to the Gregarinidæ.
- noun One of the Gregarinidæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Gregarinæ.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of various
sporozoan protozoans , of the order Gregarinida that areparasitic in the digestive tracts of someinvertebrates
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun vermiform protozoans parasitic in insects and other invertebrates
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From New Latin Gregārīna, type genus, from Latin gregārius, belonging to a flock; see gregarious.]
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Examples
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(Lecudinidae, Eugregarinida), a new gregarine parasitizing the larger grain borer, Prostephanus truncatus Horn (1878) (Bostrichidae, Coleoptera).
Chapter 10 1994
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The gregarine parasite, Locklin said, is single cell and shows up in the intestinal tract of the dragonfly.
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Although the parasite is closely related to cryptospiridium parasite that causes digestive symptoms in humans, Locklin said the gregarine parasite is not harmful to people.
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