Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Ehrenberg's name (1830) of those animalcules the appearance of whose movable food-vacuoles led him to suppose they had many proper digestive cavities or stomachs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.), obsolete The Infusoria.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology The
infusoria .
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Examples
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This substance, when dry, is tolerably compact, and of little specific gravity: Professor Enhrenberg has examined it: he states (König Akad, der Wissen: Berlin, Feb. 1845) that it is composed of infusoria, including fourteen polygastrica, and four phytolitharia.
Chapter X 1909
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This substance, when dry, is tolerably compact, and of little specific gravity: Professor Ehrenberg has examined it: he states "Konig Akad. der Wissen" Berlin February 1845, that it is composed of infusoria, including fourteen polygastrica and four phytolitharia.
The Voyage of the Beagle Charles Darwin 1845
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Wissen: Berlin, Feb. 1845) that it is composed of infusoria, including fourteen polygastrica and four phytolitharia.
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Wissen: Berlin, Feb. 1845) that it is composed of infusoria, including fourteen polygastrica and four phytolitharia.
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