Cheshire Cat wrote:Oracle,
I take it you mean paramoecium ( according to the O.E. a slipper shaped protozoan )
No Lovey, I reserve those for you.
Never mind your O.E. it is a Greek derived word ...
paramecium
(redirected from paramoecium) Any of various freshwater ciliate protozoans of the genus
Paramecium, usually oval and having an oral groove for feeding.
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[genus name, from Greek paramks, oblong in shape : para-, alongside; see para-1 + mkos, length; see mk- in Indo-European roots.]
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paramecium [par-a-mee-see-um, -see-a]
Noun
pl -cia a single-celled animal which lives in ponds, puddles, and sewage filters and swims by means of cilia
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paramecium (pr-ms-m)
Plural paramecia or parameciums
Any of various freshwater protozoans of the genus Paramecium that are usually oval in shape and that move by means of cilia. Although they consist of a single cell, paramecia are large enough to be visible to the naked eye. Like other ciliates, paramecia contain two nuclei, a macronucleus and a micronucleus. On the cellular surface is a groove that opens into a gullet, into which food particles are absorbed.
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Noun 1. paramecium - any member of the genus Paramecium
paramecia
ciliate, ciliated protozoan, ciliophoran - a protozoan with a microscopic appendage extending from the surface of the cell
genus Paramecium - freshwater ciliate with an oval body and long deep oral groove
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