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GREGARINA. Parasitic single-celled animals (Protozoa), which occur chiefly in the intestines, and sometimes also in the body-cavity of various animals, and are characterized chiefly by their manner of reproduction. Almost all of them are harmless.

(See PROTOZOA.)