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Definition of Ciliated protozoan
1. Noun. A protozoan with a microscopic appendage extending from the surface of the cell.
Generic synonyms: Protozoan, Protozoon
Group relationships: Ciliata, Ciliophora, Class Ciliata, Class Ciliophora
Specialized synonyms: Infusorian, Paramecia, Paramecium, Tetrahymena, Stentor, Vorticella
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ciliated Protozoan
Literary usage of Ciliated protozoan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission by United States Fish Commission (1882)
"Their food appears to be mainly vegetable, and consists, for the most part, of
diatoms and desmids, though a ciliated protozoan or ..."
2. Animal Parasites and Human Disease by Asa Crawford Chandler (1922)
"... a common ciliated protozoan on which he experimented particularly, old age
and death were inevitable after a variable number of asexual generations ..."
3. Bulletin (1922)
"In fact, one ciliated protozoan has been noted which appeared in this stratum
only when the oxygen was substantially or entirely absent, the largest numbers ..."
4. Heredity and Environment in the Development of Men by Edwin Grant Conklin (1922)
"A ciliated protozoan. STER-EOI'-SO-MERES. Molecules having the same composition
but different properties dependent upon varying spatial relations of their ..."
5. The Laws of Life: Principles of Evolution, Heredity and Eugenics. A Popular by William Marion Goldsmith (1922)
"The jelly fish matures and produces sperms and eggs which unite to form a ciliated
protozoan-like larva. This is known as the sexual generation. -7 Fio. 44. ..."
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