n.
Pronunciation: b ə - ' b ē -zh( ē -) ə
Function: noun
Etymology: New Latin, from Victor Babe ş † 1926 Roman bacteriologist
Date: 1911
: any of a genus ( Babesia ) of sporozoans parasitic in mammalian red blood cells (as in Texas fever) and transmitted by the bite of a tick ― called also piroplasm