Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun leishmania

1 sense of leishmania

Sense 1
Leishmania, genus Leishmania -- (flagellate protozoan that causes leishmaniasis)
       => flagellate, flagellate protozoan, flagellated protozoan, mastigophoran, mastigophore -- (a usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some are pathogens of humans and other animals)