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from The Century Dictionary.

  • An order of ciliate infusorians.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun plural (Zoöl.) A division of ciliated Infusoria, having fine cilia all over the body, and a circle of larger ones around the anterior end.

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