GENUS STENTOR

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Trumpet-shaped protozoa with a ciliated spiral feeding funnel

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("genus Stentor" is a kind of...):

protoctist genus (any genus of Protoctista)

Meronyms (members of "genus Stentor"):

stentor (any of several trumpet-shaped ciliate protozoans that are members of the genus Stentor)

Holonyms ("genus Stentor" 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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