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ORDER TESTACEA

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Meaning:

Testacean rhizopods

Synonyms:

order Testacea; Testacea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("order Testacea" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "order Testacea"):

testacean (any of various rhizopods of the order Testacea characterized by having a shell)

Arcellidae; family Arcellidae (soil and freshwater protozoa; cosmopolitan in distribution)

genus Difflugia (genus of protozoans related to ameba)

Holonyms ("order Testacea" is a member of...):

Rhizopoda; subclass Rhizopoda (creeping protozoans: amoebas and foraminifers)

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