coccidiann.adj.
/kɒkˈsɪdɪən/ Zoology.
A. n.
= coccidium n. 2.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > protozoa > class Sporozoa > subclass Teleosporidia > [noun] > order Coccidia > member of
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1918 A. C. Chandler Animal Parasites & Human Dis. x. 170 There are a number of serious diseases of animals which are caused by parasites of the class Sporozoa known as coccidians.
1961 D. L. Mackinnon & R. S. J. Hawes Introd. Study Protozoa iii. 157 We are left with the two related but interestingly contrasted orders of gregarines and coccidians.
B. adj.
Of or pertaining to the order Coccidia.
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1934 T. W. M. Cameron Internal Parasites Domest. Animals ii. 33 The typical life-cycle of a coccidian parasite.
1941 J. 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.
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