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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An extensive genus of peritrichous ciliate infusorians, of the family Vorticellidæ and subfamily Vaginicolinæ, founded by Ehrenberg. The species inhabit fresh and salt water, as C. imberbis and C. maritima.
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