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plural microsporidians or microsporidia
Any of many parasites, of the class Microsporidia, considered to be fungi or close relatives of fungi. quotations examples
Bulnheim subsequently observed that either of two parasitic microsporidians, Octosporea effeminans and Thelohania herediteria, were invariably associated with the thelygeny.
1983, James J. Bull, Evolution of Sex Determining Mechanisms, page 94
Moreover , the sequence of ribosomal RNA suggests that the microsporidia are extremely ancient eukaryotes and had separated very early from other eukaryotes.
1993, Yoshinori Tanada, Insect Pathology, page 425