rotifer

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

Any of many minute aquatic multicellular organisms, of the phylum Rotifera, that have a ring of cilia resembling a wheel.

rotifer rotifers

From Latin rota (“wheel”) + -fer (“-bearing”), after Italian rotifero.

wheel animal wheel animalcule

rotiferan

bdelloid rotifer rotiferous

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