protozoon
Americannoun
plural
protozoaEtymology
Origin of protozoon
Singular of Protozoa
Example Sentences
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The Anopheline mosquito bites a person and injects the malaria organism, a protozoon about one-fifth the size of a red blood cell.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is convinced that human cancers are caused by a similar infection, though no active parasite, either bacterium or protozoon, has yet been found.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cause of the disease is a trypanosome, protozoon which under the microscope resembles an auger.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some symptoms of kala-azar are like those of malaria, but the invading parasite is different: a protozoon named Leishmania donovani.
From Time Magazine Archive
When balance is disturbed—by anything from indigestion in a protozoon up to a storm on the ocean where he lives, there is a catastrophe.
From The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 by Various
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