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from The Century Dictionary.
- An order of ciliate Infusoria, containing those which have a zone of cilia about the body.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) A division of ciliated Infusoria having a circle of cilia around the oral disk and sometimes another around the body. It includes the vorticellas. See
vorticella .
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