Akademik

Endamoebidae

noun

a large family of endoparasitic amebas that invade the digestive tract

• Syn: ↑family Endamoebidae

• Hypernyms: ↑family

• Member Holonyms: ↑Amoebida, ↑order Amoebida, ↑Amoebina, ↑order Amoebina

• Member Meronyms: ↑Endamoeba, ↑genus Endamoeba

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\\ˌendəˈmēbəˌdē\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Endamoeba, type genus + -idae

: a large family of endoparasitic amoebas (order Amoebina) that invade the digestive tract of vertebrates and invertebrates and are typically passed from host to host in a resistant cyst through the medium of contaminated food or drink — compare endamoeba, entamoeba

Useful english dictionary. 2012.