protozoon
Americannoun
plural
protozoaEtymology
Origin of protozoon
Singular of Protozoa
Example Sentences
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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.
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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.
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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
Instead of comparing with a mammal at the top of the organic scale, it is like a formless, undifferentiated protozoon at the bottom.
From The Art of Lecturing Revised Edition by Lewis, Arthur M. (Arthur Morrow)
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