Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various slipper-shaped freshwater ciliate protozoans of the genus Paramecium, having an oral groove for feeding.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The typical genus of Parameciidæ; the slipper-animalcules, having a soft flexible cuticle and oblique adoral groove. P. bursarium is an example. Commonly, but wrongly, Paramæcium or Paramœicium.
- noun [lowercase; pl. paramecia (-ä).] A member of this genus.
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- noun zoology An oval-shaped
protozoan organism of the genus Paramecium.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any member of the genus Paramecium
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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News Ten-year-old Mirabella Gibson spelled "paramecium" to take first-place honors Tuesday in the Wyandotte County 2010 spelling bee.
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Bonner Springs fifth grader spells "paramecium" to win Spelling Bee Send to friend
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News Ten-year-old Mirabella Gibson spelled "paramecium" to take first-place honors Tuesday in the Wyandotte County 2010 spelling bee.
WN.com - Articles related to Pope sends his wishes for peaceful Olympics 2010
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Bonner Springs fifth grader spells "paramecium" to win Spelling Bee Today's Poll: Do you think a four-day school week to save money is a good idea?
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London's fiction (his essays as well) has a terrific range for that "new generation of readers," at least those with an attention span beyond the paramecium level.
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They move like one solid body, a single organism, a paramecium of men.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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The University of Utah's Genetic Science Learning Center created this zoomable window that compares the size of a coffee bean with smaller things like a grain of salt, a paramecium, a red blood cell, a human egg, a glucose molecule, and so on, all the way down to a carbon atom.
How the DC snipers hacked an ex-police car to make a killing machine - Boing Boing 2009
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The University of Utah's Genetic Science Learning Center created this zoomable window that compares the size of a coffee bean with smaller things like a grain of salt, a paramecium, a red blood cell, a human egg, a glucose molecule, and so on, all the way down to a carbon atom.
Zoomable cell size application helps you understand size of tiny things - Boing Boing 2009
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The University of Utah's Genetic Science Learning Center created this zoomable window that compares the size of a coffee bean with smaller things like a grain of salt, a paramecium, a red blood cell, a human egg, a glucose molecule, and so on, all the way down to a carbon atom.
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The University of Utah's Genetic Science Learning Center created this zoomable window that compares the size of a coffee bean with smaller things like a grain of salt, a paramecium, a red blood cell, a human egg, a glucose molecule, and so on, all the way down to a carbon atom.
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