Definitions for gregarine

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gregarine greg·a·rine

Spelling: [greg-uh-rahyn, -er-in]

IPA: /ˈgrɛg əˌraɪn, -ər ɪn/

Gregarine is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 216 anagrams from letters in gregarine (aeegginrr).

Definitions for gregarine

noun

1. a type of sporozoan parasite that inhabits the digestive and other cavities of various invertebrates and produces cysts filled with spores.

adjective

1. having the characteristics of or pertaining to a gregarine or gregarines.

Origin of gregarine

1865-70; New Latin Gregarina name of type, equivalent to Latin gregār(ius) (see gregarious) + -īna -ine¹

Examples for gregarine

For at last they become an Acinetan or a gregarine, exactly like the parent-cell from which they arose as embryos.

A gregarine, Diplocystis, in the haemocoele of the roach, Blaberus craniifer Burm.