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GENUS VORTICELLA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Ciliated protozoans that have a goblet-shaped body with a retractile stalk
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Vorticella" is a kind of...):
protoctist genus (any genus of Protoctista)
Meronyms (members of "genus Vorticella"):
vorticella (any of various protozoa having a transparent goblet-shaped body with a retractile stalk)
Holonyms ("genus Vorticella" is a member of...):
Ciliata; Ciliophora; class Ciliata; class Ciliophora (class of protozoa having cilia or hairlike appendages on part or all of the surface during some part of the life cycle)
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