English noun: plasmodium | |||
1. | plasmodium (animal) multinucleate sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of such organisms as slime molds | ||
Broader (hypernym) | cytol, cytoplasm | ||
2. | plasmodium (animal) parasitic protozoan of the genus Plasmodium that causes malaria in humans | ||
Synonyms | malaria parasite, Plasmodium vivax | ||
Broader (hypernym) | sporozoan | ||
Member meronym | genus Plasmodium | ||