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Volvox :: Volvox (n.) A genus of minute, pale-green, globular, organisms, about one fiftieth of an inch in diameter, found rolling through water, the motion being produced by minute colorless cilia. It has been considered as belonging to the flagellate Infusoria, but is now referred to the vegetable kingdom, and each globule is considered a colony of many individuals. The commonest species is Volvox globator, often called globe animalcule..

Monadaria :: Monadaria (n. pl.) The Infusoria.

Mastigopoda :: Mastigopoda (n. pl.) The Infusoria.

Cilia :: Cilia (n. pl.) Small, generally microscopic, vibrating appendages lining certain organs, as the air passages of the higher animals, and in the lower animals often covering also the whole or a part of the exterior. They are also found on some vegetable organisms. In the Infusoria, and many larval forms, they are locomotive organs..

Peritricha :: Peritricha (n. pl.) A division of ciliated Infusoria having a circle of cilia around the oral disk and sometimes another around the body. It includes the vorticellas. See Vorticella.

Holotricha :: Holotricha (n. pl.) A group of ciliated Infusoria, having cilia all over the body..

Polygastrica :: Polygastrica (n. pl.) The Infusoria.

Animalcule :: Animalcule (n.) An animal, invisible, or nearly so, to the naked eye. See Infusoria..

Infusoria :: Infusoria (n. pl.) One of the classes of Protozoa, including a large number of species, all of minute size..

Flagellata :: Flagellata (v. t.) An order of Infusoria, having one or two long, whiplike cilia, at the anterior end. It includes monads. See Infusoria, and Monad..

Bell Animalcule :: Bell animalcule () An infusorian of the family Vorticellidae, common in fresh-water ponds..

Kieselguhr :: Kieselguhr (n.) Siliceous earth; specifically, porous infusorial earth, used as an absorbent of nitroglycerin in the manufacture of dynamite..

Monad :: Monad (n.) One of the smallest flangellate Infusoria; esp., the species of the genus Monas, and allied genera..

Monas :: Monas (n.) A genus of minute flagellate Infusoria of which there are many species, both free and attached. See Illust. under Monad..

Duplicate :: Duplicate (v. t.) To divide into two by natural growth or spontaneous action; as, infusoria duplicate themselves..

Vaginicola :: Vaginicola (n.) A genus of Infusoria which form minute vaselike or tubular cases in which they dwell.

Infusorial :: Infusorial (a.) Belonging to the Infusoria; composed of, or containing, Infusoria; as, infusorial earth..

Acinetae :: Acinetae (n. pl.) A group of suctorial Infusoria, which in the adult stage are stationary. See Suctoria..

Infusorian :: Infusorian (n.) One of the Infusoria.

Plegepoda :: Plegepoda (n. pl.) Same as Infusoria.

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