sport an cet (sportans)

[ sporter (spor'ter), n. [ sport + -er1.] One who or that which sports, in any sense of the verb. Goldsmith. sportful (sport'fül), a . [ sport + -ful .] 1. Frolicsome; playful; mirthful; merry. Down he alights among the sportful herd. Milton, P. L., iv. 396. Whan they had take hyr sporte in halle, The kyng to counselle gan hyr calle. Ipomydon (Weber's Metr. Romances, II. 303), 1.601. 2t. Amorous; wanton. IMG:content-1831.png:[blocks in formation] To sports which only childhood could excuse. Cowper , Task, ii. 638. Sporozoa (spō-ro-zō'ä), n . pl . [NL., σπορά , Specifically - (a) A dramatic or spectacular performance. eed, + ζῷον, an animal.] 1. Mouthle parasitic corticate protozoans, a cla of Protozoa, synonymous with Gregarinida, but more comprehensive, including many organisms not ordinarily cla ed with the gregarines. They are parasitic, and occur in almost all animals. Most are very minute, but some attain the largest size by far known among protozoans. The Sporozoa have been divided into four subcla es, Greg a rin idea, Coccid i idea, Myxo sporidia, and Sarcocystidia. Also called Cytozoa. 2. [l. c.] Plural of sporozoön. sporozoan (spō-rō-zō'an), a. and n. [ II. n. A member of the Sporozoa . sporozoic (spō-rō-zō'ik), a. [ Sporozoa + -ic . ] Same as sporozoan . [ sporozooid (spō-rō-zō'oid), п. seed, + zooid.] In biol., a zoöspore. sporozoön (spō-rō-zō'on), n.; pl. sporozoa (-a). [NL.: see Sporozoa.] An individual of the Sporozoa; a sporozoan.