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Suctoria :: Suctoria (n. pl.) An order of Infusoria having the body armed with somewhat stiff, tubular processes which they use as suckers in obtaining their food. They are usually stalked..

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

Bergmeal :: Bergmeal (n.) An earthy substance, resembling fine flour. It is composed of the shells of infusoria, and in Lapland and Sweden is sometimes eaten, mixed with flour or ground birch bark, in times of scarcity. This name is also given to a white powdery variety of calcite..

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

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

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

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

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

Rhombogene :: Rhombogene (n.) A dicyemid which produces infusorialike embryos; -- opposed to nematogene. See Dicyemata.

Myophan :: Myophan (n.) A contractile striated layer found in the bodies and stems of certain 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..

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

Infusory :: Infusory (a.) Infusorial.

Stentor :: Stentor (n.) Any species of ciliated Infusoria belonging to the genus Stentor and allied genera, common in fresh water. The stentors have a bell-shaped, or cornucopia-like, body with a circle of cilia around the spiral terminal disk. See Illust. under Heterotricha..

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.

Noctiluca :: Noctiluca (n.) A genus of marine flagellate Infusoria, remarkable for their unusually large size and complex structure, as well as for their phosphorescence. The brilliant diffuse phosphorescence of the sea is often due to myriads of Noctilucae..

Infusory :: Infusory (n.) One of the Infusoria; -- usually in the pl.

Zoodendrium :: Zoodendrium (n.) The branched, and often treelike, support of the colonies of certain Infusoria..

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

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

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