haemosporidian

English Thesaurus

1. minute protozoans parasitic at some stage of the life cycle in blood cells of vertebrates including many pathogens (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	sporozoan,
definition	:	parasitic spore-forming protozoan (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	haemosporidia, order haemosporidia,
definition	:	an order in the subclass Telosporidia (noun.animal)