PROTIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does protist mean? 

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

1. free-living or colonial organisms with diverse nutritional and reproductive modes

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROTIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Free-living or colonial organisms with diverse nutritional and reproductive modes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

protist; protistan

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

micro-organism; microorganism (any organism of microscopic size)

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

division Protista; Protista (eukaryotic one-celled living organisms distinct from multicellular plants and animals: protozoa, slime molds, and eukaryotic algae)

 Context examples 

A small RNA involved in post-transcriptional mitochondrial RNA modification (RNA editing) in kinetoplastid protists.

(Guide RNA, NCI Thesaurus)

In addition to providing a key part of the response to bacterial infection, the complement system can be involved in the response to fungi, viruses and protists.

(Complement Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

C-P compounds have been found in many organisms, but only protists and bacteria, mostly Actinobacteria, have biosynthetic capacity.

(Aminophosphonate Metabolism Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)