protrichocyst
Zoology
noun
(In various ciliate protozoans) each of the minute sac-like organelles arranged in rows near the surface of the cell which discharge mucoid material; a mucocyst.
Origin
1930s; earliest use found in Gary Calkins (1869–1943). After German Protrichocyste, so called as they were thought to be undeveloped trichocysts.
- rat's tail
- rat's tail cactus
- rat's tail fescue
- rat's tail file
- rat's tail hair
- rat's tails
- rat-tail
- rat-tail cactus
- rat-tail comb
- rat-tailed
- rat-tailed maggot
- rat-tail file
- rat-tail grass
- rat-tail hinge
- rat-tail maggot
- rat-tail radish
- rat-tail rasp
- rat-tail silver
- rat-tail spoon
- rattan
- rattanning
- rat-tat
- rat-tat ginger
- rat-tat-tat
- ratted