any freshwater protozoan of the genus Paramecium, having an oval body covered with cilia and a ventral ciliated groove for feeding: phylum Ciliophora (ciliates)
Word origin
C18: New Latin, from Greek paramēkēs elongated, from para-1 + mēkos length
Examples of 'paramecia' in a sentence
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In what ways are paramecia more specialized than amœba are?
Worrallo Whitney; Frederic Lucas; Harold Shinn; Mabel Smallwood A Guide for the Study of Animals (1911). Retrieved in 2019 from Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/)
What structures do you see which you saw in the stained paramecia?
Worrallo Whitney; Frederic Lucas; Harold Shinn; Mabel Smallwood A Guide for the Study of Animals (1911). Retrieved in 2019 from Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/)
Among the paramecia you are studying you usually find at least one in the processof fission.
Worrallo Whitney; Frederic Lucas; Harold Shinn; Mabel Smallwood A Guide for the Study of Animals (1911). Retrieved in 2019 from Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/)
How rapidly do paramecia really move?
Worrallo Whitney; Frederic Lucas; Harold Shinn; Mabel Smallwood A Guide for the Study of Animals (1911). Retrieved in 2019 from Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/)