Biol. [mod.L., alteration of sȳzygia (see next).] = SYZYGY 3 b.
1885. Encycl. Brit., XIX. 855/2. The term ‘syzygium’ is applied to such a conjunction of two Gregarinidea.
1898. P. Manson, Trop. Diseases, i. 12. [The crescent body of malaria] is the result of the conjugation of two ordinary plasmodia—a syzygium, in fact.
