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ROTIFER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Minute aquatic multicellular organisms having a ciliated wheel-like organ for feeding and locomotion; constituents of freshwater plankton
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("rotifer" is a kind of...):
invertebrate (any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification)
Holonyms ("rotifer" is a member of...):
phylum Rotifera; Rotifera (a phylum including: rotifers)