INFUSORIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does infusorian mean? 

• INFUSORIAN (noun)
  The noun INFUSORIAN has 1 sense:

1. any member of the subclass Infusoria

  Familiarity information: INFUSORIAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INFUSORIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any member of the subclass Infusoria

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("infusorian" is a kind of...):

ciliate; ciliated protozoan; ciliophoran (a protozoan with a microscopic appendage extending from the surface of the cell)

Holonyms ("infusorian" is a member of...):

Infusoria; subclass Infusoria (in some recent classifications, coextensive with the Ciliata: minute organisms found in decomposing infusions of organic matter)