leishmania
/liːʃˈmeɪnɪə
/noun (plural same or leishmanias or leishmaniae /liːʃˈmeɪnɪʌɪ/)
A single-celled parasitic protozoan which spends part of its life cycle in the gut of a sandfly and part in the blood and other tissues of a vertebrate.
- Genus Leishmania, phylum Kinetoplastida, kingdom Protista.
- The leishmania parasite is spread by the bite of a sandfly not known to exist in Australia.
- Parts of the malaria and leishmania parasite genomes are also known.
Origin
Modern Latin, from the name of William B. Leishman (1856–1926), British pathologist.
- mutton-bird tree
- mutton bone
- mutton chops
- mutton-chop whiskered
- mutton chop whiskers
- mutton cloth
- mutton dressed as lamb
- mutton dummy
- mutton fat
- mutton-fish
- mutton-fisted
- mutton flap
- mutton ham
- muttonhead
- muttonheaded
- Mutton jeff
- mutton pie
- mutton quad
- mutton sheep
- mutton snapper
- muttonwood
- muttony
- trapezoid bone
- trap-like
- trapline