ROTIFER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rotifer mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROTIFER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

invertebrate (any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification)

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

phylum Rotifera; Rotifera (a phylum including: rotifers)