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Protista   Listen
noun
Protista  n. pl.  (Zool.) A provisional group in which are placed a number of low microscopic organisms of doubtful nature. Some are probably plants, others animals.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... structures—the cell unit. Just as gold and copper crystallizes in a geometrical form, a cube—bismuth and antimony in a hexagonal, iodine and sulphur in a rhombic form—so we find among radiolaria, and among other protista and lower forms, that they "may be traced to a mathematical, fundamental form, and whose form in its whole, as well as in its parts, is bounded by definite geometrically determinable planes and angles." Now, as to the forces of the two different groups of bodies. Surely the constructive ...
— Was Man Created? • Henry A. Mott



Words linked to "Protista" :   protistan, protist, Protoctista, division Protista, kingdom Protoctista, division



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