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- noun Plural form of
merozoite .
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Examples
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It travels to the liver, where it invades a cell and there multiplies into forty thousand offspring, called merozoites—these are now shaped like a grape.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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It travels to the liver, where it invades a cell and there multiplies into forty thousand offspring, called merozoites—these are now shaped like a grape.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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It travels to the liver, where it invades a cell and there multiplies into forty thousand offspring, called merozoites—these are now shaped like a grape.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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In the blood, successive broods of parasites grow inside the red blood cells and destroy them, releasing daughter parasites, called "merozoites" that continue the cycle by invading other red blood cells.
Malaria 2008
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In the blood, successive broods of parasites grow inside the red blood cells and destroy them, releasing daughter parasites, called "merozoites" that continue the cycle by invading other red blood cells.
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After a while, some of the merozoites produce a different form—a sexual one, called a macrogamont.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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Merozoites pour out of the liver and seek out red blood cells, where they make more merozoites.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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Merozoites pour out of the liver and seek out red blood cells, where they make more merozoites.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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Merozoites pour out of the liver and seek out red blood cells, where they make more merozoites.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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After a while, some of the merozoites produce a different form—a sexual one, called a macrogamont.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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