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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cyst, formed by various protozoans and protophytes, whose contents break up into many germinal granules or spores; a kind of sporocyst.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Biol.) A cyst formed by certain Protozoa and unicellular plants which the contents divide into a large number of granules, each of which becomes a germ.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A variety of
encysted rhizopods resembling asporocyst , except in thethickness and number of the protective layer.
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