Sporocyst is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SPOROCYST in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a rounded, thick-walled structure produced, as by protozoans, in the process of sporulation
• a parasitic fluke in the initial stage of infection in a snail host, developed from a miracidium.
• (in parasitic sporozoans) an encysted zygote in an invertebrate host.
• thick-walled rounded structure produced by sporozoan protozoans
• An asexual zooid, usually forming one of a series of larval forms in the agamic reproduction of various trematodes and other parasitic worms. The sporocyst generally develops from an egg, but in its turn produces other larvae by internal budding, or by the subdivision of a part or all of its contents into a number of minute germs. See Redia.
• Any protozoan when it becomes encysted produces germs by sporulation.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a case or cyst secreted by some sporozoans preliminary to sporogony; a sporozoan encysted in such a case

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Words that contain SPOROCYST

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