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Rotifer

noun
1.
Minute aquatic multicellular organisms having a ciliated wheel-like organ for feeding and locomotion; constituents of freshwater plankton.



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Rotifera
phylum Rotifera


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... Rotifers and Tardigrades being spontaneously generated, my mind can no more digest such statements, whether true or false, than my stomach can digest a lump of lead. Dr. Bastian is always comparing Archebiosis, as well as growth, to crystallisation; but, on this view, a Rotifer or Tardigrade is adapted to its humble conditions of life by a happy accident, and this I cannot believe...He must have worked with very impure materials in some cases, as plenty of organisms appeared in a saline solution not ...
— The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume II • Francis Darwin


Words linked to "Rotifer" :   phylum Rotifera, invertebrate, Rotifera


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