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Infusoria :: Infusoria (n. pl.) One of the classes of Protozoa, including a large number of species, all of minute size..

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

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

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

Myxocystodea :: Myxocystodea (n. pl.) A division of Infusoria including the Noctiluca. See Noctiluca.

Peritricha :: Peritricha (n. pl.) A division of ciliated Infusoria having a circle of cilia around the oral disk and sometimes another around the body. It includes the vorticellas. See Vorticella.

Baguette :: Baguette (n.) One of the minute bodies seen in the divided nucleoli of some Infusoria after conjugation.

Zoodendrium :: Zoodendrium (n.) The branched, and often treelike, support of the colonies of certain Infusoria..

Vaginicola :: Vaginicola (n.) A genus of Infusoria which form minute vaselike or tubular cases in which they dwell.

Hypotricha :: Hypotricha (n. pl.) A division of ciliated Infusoria in which the cilia cover only the under side of the body.

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..

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

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

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

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

Holotricha :: Holotricha (n. pl.) A group of ciliated Infusoria, having cilia all over the body..

Infusorian :: Infusorian (n.) One of 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..

Infusory :: Infusory (a.) Infusorial.

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

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