From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Plasmodium \Plas*mo"di*um\, noun; pl. {Plasmodia}. [NL. See {Plasma}.]
1. (Biol.) A jellylike mass of free protoplasm, without any union of am[oe]boid cells, and endowed with life and power of motion.
2. (Zo["o]l.) A naked mobile mass of protoplasm, formed by the union of several am[oe]balike young, and constituting one of the stages in the life cycle of Mycetozoa and other low organisms.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: multinucleate sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of such organisms as slime molds
2: parasitic protozoan of the genus Plasmodium that causes malaria in humans [syn: {Plasmodium vivax}, {malaria parasite}] [also: {plasmodia} (pl)]
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