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Pyrenoid :: Pyrenoid (n.) A transparent body found in the chromatophores of certain Infusoria.

Microzoa :: Microzoa (n. pl.) The Infusoria.

Bell Animalcule :: Bell animalcule () An infusorian of the family Vorticellidae, common in fresh-water ponds..

Monad :: Monad (n.) One of the smallest flangellate Infusoria; esp., the species of the genus Monas, and allied genera..

Vorticella :: Vorticella (n.) Any one of numerous species of ciliated Infusoria belonging to Vorticella and many other genera of the family Vorticellidae. They have a more or less bell-shaped body with a circle of vibrating cilia around the oral disk. Most of the species have slender, contractile stems, either simple or branched..

Monas :: Monas (n.) A genus of minute flagellate Infusoria of which there are many species, both free and attached. See Illust. under Monad..

Monadaria :: Monadaria (n. pl.) The Infusoria.

Rhombogene :: Rhombogene (n.) A dicyemid which produces infusorialike embryos; -- opposed to nematogene. See Dicyemata.

Zoocytium :: Zoocytium (n.) The common support, often branched, of certain species of social Infusoria..

Plegepoda :: Plegepoda (n. pl.) Same as Infusoria.

Phytozoaria :: Phytozoaria (n. pl.) Same as Infusoria.

Infusory :: Infusory (n.) One of the Infusoria; -- usually in the pl.

Myophan :: Myophan (n.) A contractile striated layer found in the bodies and stems of certain Infusoria.

Animalcule :: Animalcule (n.) An animal, invisible, or nearly so, to the naked eye. See Infusoria..

Styliferous :: Stylet (n.) Any small, more or less rigid, bristlelike organ; as, the caudal stylets of certain insects; the ventral stylets of certain Infusoria..

Suctoria :: Suctoria (n. pl.) An order of Infusoria having the body armed with somewhat stiff, tubular processes which they use as suckers in obtaining their food. They are usually stalked..

Mastigopoda :: Mastigopoda (n. pl.) The Infusoria.

Bergmeal :: Bergmeal (n.) An earthy substance, resembling fine flour. It is composed of the shells of infusoria, and in Lapland and Sweden is sometimes eaten, mixed with flour or ground birch bark, in times of scarcity. This name is also given to a white powdery variety of calcite..

Kieselguhr :: Kieselguhr (n.) Siliceous earth; specifically, porous infusorial earth, used as an absorbent of nitroglycerin in the manufacture of dynamite..

Ciliata :: Ciliata (n. pl.) One of the orders of Infusoria, characterized by having cilia. In some species the cilia cover the body generally, in others they form a band around the mouth..

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