merontn.

1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Meront, in certain sporozoans,..a form of trophozoite which multiplies by simple schizogony.

1914 H. B. Fantham & A. Porter Some Minute Animal Parasites 219 The body protoplasm divides also, and two daughter forms are produced. These dividing forms are known as meronts and schizonts. There are several variations in the ways by which daughter meronts are produced.

1916 Nature 2 Mar. 8/1 A minute amoeboid germ or amoebula..emerges from the spore. It..penetrates in or between cells. There..it commences to multiply, and is termed a meront.

1963 G. A. Kerkut Borradaile & Potts's Invertebrata (rev. ed.) i. 42 (in figure) Agamont (schizont, meront).

1980 Jrnl. Protozool. 27 383/1 Micropores were observed in merozoites but not in young and intermediate meronts.

1993 Jrnl. Invertebr. Pathol. 62 137/1 The meronts within larvae infected by horizontal transmission ultimately develop into the binucleate spores within adult females to complete the life cycle.