Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A multinucleate, often large mass of protoplasm that moves and ingests food and is characteristic of the vegetative phase of plasmodial slime molds.
- noun Any of various protozoans of the genus Plasmodium, which includes the parasites that cause malaria.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Protoplasm of protozoans in sheets, masses, or comparatively large quantities, as formed by the plasmodiate members of the Protozoa.
- noun A definite quantity of Plasmodium, or the Plasmodium of given individual organisms.
- noun The naked multinucleated mass of protoplasm, exhibiting amœboid movement, which makes up the entire plant-body of the slime-molds (Myxomycetes) during the vegetative period of their existence. See Myxomycetes, slime-mold, Fuligo, 2, and Olpidium
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Biol.) A jellylike mass of free protoplasm, without any union of amœboid cells, and endowed with life and power of motion.
- noun (Zoöl.) A naked mobile mass of protoplasm, formed by the union of several amœbalike young, and constituting one of the stages in the life cycle of Mycetozoa and other low organisms.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun biology A mass of
cytoplasm , containing manynuclei , created by the aggregation ofamoeboid cells ofslime molds during theirvegetative phase.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun multinucleate sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of such organisms as slime molds
- noun parasitic protozoan of the genus Plasmodium that causes malaria in humans
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Malaria is caused by a parasite called plasmodium, which is transmitted by the bites of infected mosquitos.
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Malaria is caused by a parasite called plasmodium, which is transmitted by the bites of infected mosquitos.
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Malaria is caused by a parasite called plasmodium, which is transmitted by the bites of infected mosquitos.
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Malaria is caused by a parasite called plasmodium, which is transmitted by the bites of infected mosquitos.
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Malaria is caused by a parasite called plasmodium, which is transmitted by the bites of infected mosquitos.
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Malaria is caused by a parasite called plasmodium, which is transmitted by the bites of infected mosquitos.
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Ms. SONIA SHAH (Author, "The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years"): Well, the parasite is called plasmodium, and it's protozoan.
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In 1880, scientists isolated a one-cell parasite called a plasmodium that is the real cause of the disease.
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"Malaria is caused by a parasite called plasmodium, which is transmitted via the bites of infected mosquitoes.
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Malaria is caused by the parasite plasmodium, which is transmitted by the bites of infected mosquitos.
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