plasmodium

1. 1.

   multinucleate sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of such organisms as slime molds

   Broadercytoplasm
2. 2.

   parasitic protozoan of the genus Plasmodium that causes malaria in humans

   SynonymsPlasmodium vivaxmalaria parasite

   Broadersporozoan

   Part ofgenus Plasmodium

Other forms of plasmodium

plural

plasmodia

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about plasmodium

What does plasmodium mean?

plasmodium means "multinucleate sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of such organisms as slime molds". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in plasmodium?

plasmodium has 4 syllables: pla-smo-di-um. The stress falls on "smo". In IPA it is /plæzˈmoʊdiəm/.

What is another word for plasmodium?

Close synonyms include Plasmodium vivax, malaria parasite. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is plasmodium a common word?

plasmodium is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.