gregarineadj.n.
/ˈɡrɛɡərɪn/ Zoology.
A. adj.
Of or pertaining to the genus Gregarina or class Gregarinida of protozoans, parasitic chiefly in insects, molluscs, and crustacea.
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gregarinea1900
a1900 In recent Dicts.
1903 E. A. Minchin in E. R. Lankester Treat. Zool. i. ii. 152 The first notice of a gregarine parasite.
1903 E. A. Minchin in E. R. Lankester Treat. Zool. i. ii. 161 Gregarine spores.
1968 R. D. Manwell Introd. Protozool. (ed. 2) xxiii. 463 Some features of gregarine life cycles have already been briefly considered.
B. n.
One of the Gregarinida.
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gregarine1867
1867 J. Hogg Microscope (ed. 6) ii. ii. 368 The Gregarines observed in the flesh of oxen.
1884 A. Sedgwick & F. G. Heathcote tr. C. Claus Elem. Text-bk. Zool.: Protozoa to Insecta 208 The Gregarines are found mainly in Invertebrata.
Derivatives
gregaˈriniform adj. shaped like a gregarine.
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gregariniform1897
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 728 (note) The malarial organism being a gregariniform parasite capable of living in the body of man or in the body of mosquito.
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greˈgarinous adj. afflicted with or possessing gregarines ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon 1886).
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