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Protozoon   Listen
noun
Protozoon  n.  (pl. protozoa)  (Zool.)
(a)
One of the Protozoa.
(b)
A single zooid of a compound protozoan.






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"Protozoon" Quotes from Famous Books



... which the daughter-units are not quite separated off from one another, but remain coherent. Thus Volvox, a beautiful green ball, found in some canals and the like, is a colony of a thousand or even ten thousand cells. It has almost formed a body! But in this "colony-making" Protozoon, and in others like it, the component cells are all of one kind, whereas in true multicellular animals there are different kinds of cells, showing division of labour. There are some other Protozoa in which the nucleus or kernel divides into ...
— The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) - A Plain Story Simply Told • J. Arthur Thomson



Words linked to "Protozoon" :   rhizopod, euglena, sarcodinian, difflugia, sporozoan, arcella, plantlike flagellate, ciliophoran, Protozoa, mastigophoran, rhizopodan, flagellate protozoan, protozoan, protoctist



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