Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

piroplasma

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: piro-plas-ma
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Babesia, a genus of hematozoa that invades the red blood cells of humans and domesticated animals such as dogs and sheep

noun

Any of many other parasitic protozoa related to Babesia in order Piroplasmida

Example Sentences

"It has been known for some years past that Piroplasma in the digestive tube of an adult female tick can give rise to infection in the offspring of that female, so that one generation of ticks can acquire the parasites from cattle, and the next generation can transmit the disease to other cattle"
"Present systematics of piroplasms is based almost entirely upon criteria derived from taxonomic interpretation of a combination of morphology of the intraerythrocytic stages, host specificity, vector, mode of pathogenesis and pathogenicity, cross-immunity, frequency of schizonts and piroplasms, and spatial distribution"

Etymology

From Latin pirum (“pear”) + Ancient Greek πλάσμα (plásma, “image, formation”).

Inflected Forms

piroplasmas (plural) piroplasmata (plural) piroplasm (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

piroplasmic

Questions

What does piroplasma mean?: Babesia, a genus of hematozoa that invades the red blood cells of humans and domesticated animals such as dogs and sheep
Where does piroplasma come from?: From Latin pirum (“pear”) + Ancient Greek πλάσμα (plásma, “image, formation”).

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