INFUSORIAN

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any member of the subclass Infusoria

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("infusorian" is a kind of...):

ciliate; ciliated protozoan; ciliophoran (a protozoan with a microscopic appendage extending from the surface of the cell)

Holonyms ("infusorian" is a member of...):

Infusoria; subclass Infusoria (in some recent classifications, coextensive with the Ciliata: minute organisms found in decomposing infusions of organic matter)

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