VORTICELLA


Meaning of VORTICELLA in English

noun any one of numerous species of ciliated infusoria belonging to vorticella and many other genera of the family vorticellidae. they have a more or less bell-shaped body with a circle of vibrating cilia around the oral disk. most of the species have slender, contractile stems, either simple or branched.

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