paramecium

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An oval-shaped protozoan organism of the genus Paramecium

Edgar noticed that Clyde was wearing a necktie with a driblet design. The little figures made him think of paramecia, sinister organisms with gullets and feeding grooves.

A free living unicellular animal, a protozoan The surface of paramecium is covered in cilia, that beat in wave patterns to power swimming (section 7 2)
A type of oval-shaped protozoan organism
Any of the free-living, single-celled protozoans that make up the genus Paramecium. Most are about the size of the period at the end of this sentence. They vary in shape and are surrounded by a rigid protein layer (pellicle) covered with hundreds of cilia that beat rhythmically to propel them and to direct bacteria and other food particles into their oral groove. Food particles are collected into food vacuoles, where digestion takes place. Two (occasionally three) contractile vacuoles close to the surface near the ends of the cell expand and contract as they discharge metabolic wastes and excess fluid. Paramecia have two kinds of nuclei: a large macronucleus (the centre of all metabolic activities) and at least one small micronucleus (which stores the genetic material necessary for sexual reproduction)
{i} type of single-celled organism
A one-celled animal that moves by beating the cilia on the outside of the cell
A paramecium is an aquatic, oval-shaped single-celled microscopic organism that moves by means of hair-like projections called cilia Paramecia are members of the Protozoan family, a group of the most primitive forms of animal life
any member of the genus Paramecium

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genus paramecium
freshwater ciliate with an oval body and long deep oral groove
paramecia
any member of the genus Paramecium
paramecia
plural of paramecium
paramecium

    الواصلة

    par·a·me·ci·um

    التركية النطق

    perımisiım

    المترادفات

    slipper animalcule

    النطق

    /ˌperəˈmēsēəm/ /ˌpɛrəˈmiːsiːəm/

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    () From Ancient Greek παραμήκης (“oval”), from μῆκος (“length”).
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