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Definition of vorticella in English English dictionary
- Most of the species have slender, contractile stems, either simple or branched
- {i} one-celled organism with a bell-shaped body that attaches itself to underwater plants by means of a slender stalk
- They have a more or less bell-shaped body with a circle of vibrating cilia around the oral disk
- Any one of numerous species of ciliated Infusoria belonging to Vorticella and many other genera of the family Vorticellidæ
- any of various protozoa having a transparent goblet-shaped body with a retractile stalk
- A vorticella
- vorticel
- genus vorticella
- ciliated protozoans that have a goblet-shaped body with a retractile stalk
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