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gregarine

/greg-uh-rahyn, -er-in/US // ˈgrɛg əˌraɪn, -ər ɪn //UK // (ˈɡrɛɡəˌriːn, -rɪn) //

砾岩,砾石,砾石岩,砾石的

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a type of sporozoan parasite that inhabits the digestive and other cavities of various invertebrates and produces cysts filled with spores.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having the characteristics of or pertaining to a gregarine or gregarines.

Examples

  • These exceedingly small germ-cells afterwards develop into the very different, adult gregarine-cells.

  • For at last they become an Acinetan or a Gregarine, exactly like the parent-cell from which they arose as embryos.

  • Gromphadorhina portentosa Protozoan: Undetermined gregarine, p. 184.

  • A gregarine, Diplocystis, in the haemocoele of the roach, Blaberus craniifer Burm.

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