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TESTACEA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Testacea mean?
• TESTACEA (noun)
The noun TESTACEA has 1 sense:
1. testacean rhizopods
Familiarity information: TESTACEA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Testacean rhizopods
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
order Testacea; Testacea
Hypernyms ("Testacea" is a kind of...):
animal order (the order of animals)
Meronyms (members of "Testacea"):
testacean (any of various rhizopods of the order Testacea characterized by having a shell)
Arcellidae; family Arcellidae (soil and freshwater protozoa; cosmopolitan in distribution)
genus Difflugia (genus of protozoans related to ameba)
Holonyms ("Testacea" is a member of...):
Rhizopoda; subclass Rhizopoda (creeping protozoans: amoebas and foraminifers)
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