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gregarine, a. and n. Zool.|ˈgrɛgərɪn|
[f. mod.L. Gregarīna (f. L. gregāri-us: see gregarious), the typical genus of the Gregarinidæ.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to the genus Gregarina or class Gregarinida of protozoans, parasitic chiefly in insects, molluscs, and crustacea.
a1900In recent Dicts. 1903E. A. Minchin in E. R. Lankester Treat. Zool. i. ii. 152 The first notice of a gregarine parasite. Ibid. 161 Gregarine spores. 1968R. D. Manwell Introd. Protozool. (ed. 2) xxiii. 463 Some features of gregarine life cycles have already been briefly considered.
B. n. One of the Gregarinida.
1867J. Hogg Microsc. ii. ii. 368 The Gregarines observed in the flesh of oxen. 1884A. Sedgwick tr. Claus' Zool. I. 208 The Gregarines are found mainly in Invertebrata.
So gregaˈriniform a., shaped like a gregarine; greˈgarinous a., afflicted with or possessing gregarines (Syd. Soc. Lex. 1886).
1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 728 note, The malarial organism being a gregariniform parasite capable of living in the body of man or in the body of mosquito. |