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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The typical genus of the Gregarinidæ. G. gigantea, the gregarine of the lobster, attains a length of two thirds of an inch.
  • noun One of the Gregarinidæ; a gregarine.

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  • Every animal that has only one cell-nucleus, every amoeba, every gregarina, every infusorium, is unicellular, and remains unicellular whatever variety of matter it feeds on.

    The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

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