GENUS VORTICELLA

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Meaning:

Ciliated protozoans that have a goblet-shaped body with a retractile stalk

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("genus Vorticella" is a kind of...):

protoctist genus (any genus of Protoctista)

Meronyms (members of "genus Vorticella"):

vorticella (any of various protozoa having a transparent goblet-shaped body with a retractile stalk)

Holonyms ("genus Vorticella" is a member of...):

Ciliata; Ciliophora; class Ciliata; class Ciliophora (class of protozoa having cilia or hairlike appendages on part or all of the surface during some part of the life cycle)

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