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trypanosome

Today it means: Trypanosoma brucei, a major human pathogen that causes sleeping sickness. Full definition →

translingual Trypanosoma

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translingual · learned borrowing fromTrypanosoma
English todaytrypanosome

Learned borrowing from translingual Trypanosoma. By surface analysis, trypano- + -some.

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