HELIOZOA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Heliozoa mean? 

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

1. mostly freshwater protozoa

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HELIOZOA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mostly freshwater protozoa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Heliozoa; order Heliozoa

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

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Heliozoa"):

heliozoan (protozoa with spherical bodies and stiff radiating pseudopods)

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

Actinopoda; subclass Actinopoda (heliozoans; radiolarians)