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单词 sporozoan
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sporozoann.adj.

Brit. /ˌspɒrə(ʊ)ˈzəʊən/, /ˌspɔːrə(ʊ)ˈzəʊən/, U.S. /ˌspɔrəˈzoʊən/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: sporo- comb. form, -zoan comb. form.
Etymology: < sporo- comb. form + -zoan comb. form, after Sporozoa n. Compare earlier sporozoon n.
Biology.
A. n.
An organism of the class or phylum Sporozoa.Now used informally with reference to organisms that were formerly in this group.
ΚΠ
1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 862 There are three Sporozoans included in this sub-class.
1915 V. L. Kellogg & R. W. Doane Elem. Textbk. Econ. Zool. & Entomol. 364 Pasteur..made a careful study of the disease [sc. pébrine of silkworms] and discovered that it was caused by a sporozoan.
1941 Jrnl. Parasitol. 27 413 The writer usually found only one species of myxosporidia present in any one fish, and never more than two of these sporozoans.
1972 M. J. Ursin Life in & around Salt Marshes 8 Many sporozoans are found in marine water or living within marine metazoans.
2000 C. Tudge Variety of Life ii. iii. 147 Microsporidans all live as parasites inside the cells of their hosts, and like other ‘sporozoans’, they reproduce by sudden bursts of division to generate an instant swarm.
B. adj.
Of, relating to, or caused by organisms of (or formerly of) the class or phylum Sporozoa. Formerly also more widely: (of an organism) reproducing asexually by means of spores.
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1890 Cent. Dict. Sporozoan, a., having the characters of the Sporozoa; pertaining to the Sporozoa.
1892 Bot. Gaz. 17 110 In the animal phylum, sporozoan organisms are developed only low down in the scale and are discontinued long before the higher classes are reached.
1921 Science 16 Sept. 249/1 Since 1918, at least eleven cases of sporozoan infection (including Isospora) have been discovered in the United States.
1964 Trans. Amer. Microsc. Soc. 83 237 Along with the food items observed in B. americanus gut analyses, the sporozoan parasite Gregarina was encountered.
1998 L. Margulis & K. V. Schwartz Five Kingdoms (ed. 3) ii. 117/1 Members of Phylum Microspora are easily unified as one of the old ‘sporozoan’ groups: tiny amitochondriate intracellular parasites of animals.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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