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n. Any parasitic protozoan of genus Coccidia

n. Plural of coccidium, 1.

[capitalized] The Coccidiidea.

n. an order in the subclass Telosporidia

"These two later kinds of protozoan parasites I will at the moment leave out of consideration, as well as the "coccidia," which multiply in the tissue-cells of animals -- for instance, rabbits and mice -- and cause an unhealthy growth and excessive multiplication of the cells of the tissues, which in some respects resembles that seen in the terrible disease known as cancer."

animal order