ookineten.
/ˌəʊə(ʊ)ˈkʌɪniːt/, /ˌəʊəkᵻˈniːt/, U.S. /ˌoʊoʊˈkaɪˌnit/, /ˈˌoʊoʊkəˈnit/ Biology.
A zygote capable of autonomous movement, esp. as a stage in the life cycle of some parasitic protozoa.
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1902 Proc. Royal Soc. 70 74 ‘Sporozoites’, ‘blasts’, ‘ookinetes’, ‘schizonts’, ‘amphionts’, and ‘sporonts’—terms which have their place in schemes dealing with the general morphology and life-history of the group Sporozoa, but are not, as experience shows, well suited for immediate use in describing and referring to the stages of the malaria parasite.
1931 Science 5 June 621/2 Syngamy results in the formation of a motile zygote or oökinete which soon leaves the lumen of the gut.
1968 Trans. Royal Soc. Trop. Med. & Hygiene 62 462 The tapering anterior end is truncated, not pointed, and is surmounted by a prominent dense ring, staining red. This is present in all vermicular oökinetes.
1999 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 96 14796/1 Live Plasmodium gallinaceum ookinetes [were] resuspended in Schneider medium (4 × 105 ookinetes per flask).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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