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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun in zoöl.: The flagellula or sickle-shaped young of certain protozoans, as a gregarine, as hatched from a spore.
- noun The phase or stage of growth in which a young gregarine is sickle-shaped.
- noun A genus of such organisms.
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