Meaning & use
gregarine
A single-celled parasite that lives in the digestive tract of invertebrates such as insects and worms.
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Researchers found gregarine parasites living quietly inside the beetle's digestive tract.
Gregarines rarely harm their host enough to be considered a serious threat.
A note on using this word
Gregarines belong to a group of protozoan parasites called Apicomplexa, related to the organism that causes malaria.
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