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coccidian, n. and a. Zool.|kɒkˈsɪdɪən|
[f. coccidium 2 + -an.]
A. n. = coccidium 2.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to the order Coccidia.
1918A. C. Chandler Animal Parasites & Human Disease x. 170 There are a number of serious diseases of animals which are caused by parasites of the class Sporozoa known as coccidians. 1934T. W. M. Cameron Internal Parasites of Domestic Animals ii. 33 The typical life-cycle of a coccidian parasite. 1941J. S. Huxley Uniqueness of Man vii. 176 Permitting a normally innocuous coccidian parasite to pass so rapidly and in such numbers from bird to bird that mass infection..resulted. 1961Mackinnon & Hawes Introd. Study Protozoa iii. 157 We are left with the two related but interestingly contrasted orders of gregarines and coccidians. |