paramecium
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- noun
- /ˌpærəˈmiːsiəm/
- Specialized
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paramecio
- In biology class, we learned how a paramecium moves by using tiny hair-like structures called cilia.
- see a paramecium
Not bacteria, but single celled eukaryotic organisms and more larger and more complex cells that make up bodies like ours, things like paramecia.
- Not bacteria, but single celled eukaryotic organisms and more larger and more complex cells that make up bodies like ours, things like paramecia.
Examples
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Oh, but I'm a paramecium...
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Even the paramecium has DNA, which code defines it as a paramecium.
Blog text (26) -
Three sexes for the paramecium.
Fiction book (1990) -
A man cannot win a competitive-suffering fight with a woman, for the same reason that he cannot win a competitive-being-small fight with a paramecium.
Blog text (21) -
That's a paramecium!
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Thick white billows wrapped its long oval form like a paramecium engulfed by an amoeba.
Fiction book (1993) -
Under the microscope, we observed that the paramecium was swimming gracefully through the water.
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The teacher explained that a paramecium is a simple organism found in freshwater habitats.
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word paramecium comes from Greek parts para- 'beside' and mēkos 'length', a name given because the tiny animal looks long and flat like a little slipper. So the name helps you remember that a paramecium is a single-celled freshwater living thing with tiny hairs that it uses to swim.