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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The usual English name of a peritrichous ciliated infusorian, of the family Vorticellidæ (which see). See cut under
Vorticella . Also calledbell-polyp .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Zoöl.) An infusorian of the family
Vorticellidæ , common in fresh-water ponds.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology An
infusorian of thefamily Vorticellidae, common infreshwater ponds .
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