GENUS VORTICELLA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Vorticella mean? 

• GENUS VORTICELLA (noun)
  The noun GENUS VORTICELLA has 1 sense:

1. ciliated protozoans that have a goblet-shaped body with a retractile stalk

  Familiarity information: GENUS VORTICELLA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS VORTICELLA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ciliated protozoans that have a goblet-shaped body with a retractile stalk

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("genus Vorticella" is a kind of...):

protoctist genus (any genus of Protoctista)

Meronyms (members of "genus Vorticella"):

vorticella (any of various protozoa having a transparent goblet-shaped body with a retractile stalk)

Holonyms ("genus Vorticella" is a member of...):

Ciliata; Ciliophora; class Ciliata; class Ciliophora (class of protozoa having cilia or hairlike appendages on part or all of the surface during some part of the life cycle)