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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024leish•man•i•a (lēsh man′ē ə, -mā′nē ə, līsh-),USA pronunciation n. - Microbiologyany parasitic flagellate protozoan of the genus Leishmania, occurring in vertebrates in an oval or spherical, nonflagellate form, and in invertebrates in an elongated, flagellated form.
- Neo-Latin (1903), after William Boog Leishman (1865–1926), Scottish bacteriologist; see -ia
leish•man′i•al, leish•man•ic (lēsh man′ik, līsh-),USA pronunciation leish•man′i•oid′, adj. |