plasmodium

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1. parasitic protozoan of the genus Plasmodium that causes malaria in humans (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	sporozoan,
definition	:	parasitic spore-forming protozoan (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	genus plasmodium,
definition	:	type genus of the family Plasmodiidae (noun.animal)

2. multinucleate sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of such organisms as slime molds (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	cytol, cytoplasm,
definition	:	the protoplasm of a cell excluding the nucleus; is full of proteins that control cell metabolism (noun.body)