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plasmodium
noun pl. plasmodia
- a shapeless mass of protoplasm with many nuclei and no definite size, esp. the vegetative stage of a myxomycete
- any of a genus (Plasmodium) of unicellular sporozoans found in red blood corpuscles, including the parasites that cause malaria
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