ROTIFER

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Minute aquatic multicellular organisms having a ciliated wheel-like organ for feeding and locomotion; constituents of freshwater plankton

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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)

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