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VORTICELLA
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Irregular inflected form: vorticellae
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various protozoa having a transparent goblet-shaped body with a retractile stalk
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("vorticella" is a kind of...):
ciliate; ciliated protozoan; ciliophoran (a protozoan with a microscopic appendage extending from the surface of the cell)
Holonyms ("vorticella" is a member of...):
genus Vorticella (ciliated protozoans that have a goblet-shaped body with a retractile stalk)
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