Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
Paramecium , 2.
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- noun Plural form of
paramecium .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any member of the genus Paramecium
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Examples
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Or perhaps they host only intellectually challenged life -- alien equivalents of paramecia, pond scum, or pterodactyls.
Seth Shostak: A Bucketful of Worlds Seth Shostak 2011
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I mean when do the people end the sleepwalking and reintroduce the dunking stool – or worse – for paramecia like Hastert?
Hastert goes (back) to work for Turkey « Antiwar.com Blog 2009
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Or perhaps they host only intellectually challenged life -- alien equivalents of paramecia, pond scum, or pterodactyls.
Seth Shostak: A Bucketful of Worlds Seth Shostak 2011
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Just as paramecia cannot conceive of us, so we cannot conceive of what may exist in this infinitely vast and infinitely old universe.
Josh Schrei: The Burden of Proof: How Atheism Has Adopted a Worldview That Science Never Intended 2010
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Just as paramecia cannot conceive of us, so we cannot conceive of what may exist in this infinitely vast and infinitely old universe.
The Burden of Proof: How Atheism Has Adopted a Worldview That Science Never Intended 2010
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I remember mostly his wide, ugly tie: white with blue circles inscribed by little yellow paisley paramecia.
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Tonight, Olbermoronn will denounce California for not recognizing, like its lawless, loony, so-called "Supreme Court", that the United States and California constitutions include the "funamental constitutional right" to "marry" as many dogs, oak trees, paramecia and door knobs as any Democrat wants to "marry". textee
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Their soles, what she could make of them through the vinyl, resembled large paramecia.
To-die-for 2009
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For example purposeful behavior surely occurred in unicellular eukaryotic ancestors of modern organisms like paramecia and euglena who perform rather complex adaptive movements.
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If what he's saying about paramecia (I believe) being able to learn and such is true, it strikes me as quite an example for his microtubules versus neurons argument.
Blurring the Line 2007
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