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plasmodium

/plaz-moh-dee-uhm/US // plæzˈmoʊ di əm //UK // (plæzˈməʊdɪəm) //

疟原虫,疟原虫病,浆果,瘟疫

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural plas·mo·di·a [plaz-moh-dee-uh]. /plæzˈmoʊ di ə/.

    • : Biology. an ameboid, multinucleate mass or sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of organisms, as of myxomycetes or slime molds.
    • : any parasitic protozoan of the genus Plasmodium, causing malaria in humans.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Occurring in large colonies on barkless decaying logs of various species; the plasmodium almost colorless.

  • The fructification appears to be isolated in each case; the entire plasmodium consumed in a single plasmodiocarp.

  • The plasmodium as it emerges to form fruit is pale pink or flesh color, slowly deepening to brown as maturity advances.

  • This author throws some doubt on the species he describes by suggesting that the plasmodium may be red.

  • The color is an uncertain thing even in the sporangia, which rise from one plasmodium.