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merozoite
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun merozoite has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
merozoite, n. [Gr. me`ros part + Sporozoa.].
A form of spore, usually elongate or falciform, and somewhat amoeboid, produced by segmentation of the schizonts of certain Sporozoa, as the malaria parasite. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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