plasmodium vivax

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   parasitic protozoan of the genus Plasmodium that causes malaria in humans

   Synonymsplasmodiummalaria parasite

   Broadersporozoan

   Part ofgenus Plasmodium

Questions about plasmodium vivax

What does plasmodium vivax mean?

plasmodium vivax means "parasitic protozoan of the genus Plasmodium that causes malaria in humans".

What is another word for plasmodium vivax?

Close synonyms include plasmodium, 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 vivax a common word?

plasmodium vivax 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.