sporozoite

1. 1.

   one of the minute active bodies into which sporozoans divide in one stage of their life cycle

   Broadersporozoan

Other forms of sporozoite

plural

sporozoites·

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 sporozoite

What does sporozoite mean?

sporozoite means "one of the minute active bodies into which sporozoans divide in one stage of their life cycle".

How many syllables are in sporozoite?

sporozoite has 3 syllables: spo-ro-zoite. The stress falls on "spo".

Is sporozoite a common word?

sporozoite 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.