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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Consisting of a single cyst, as a gregarine.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to a division (Monocystidea) of the protozoan order Gregarinida, in which the body consists of one sac.

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