Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various marine protozoans of the order (or phylum) Radiolaria, having rigid siliceous skeletons and spicules.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the Radiolaria; containing or consisting of radiolarians.
- noun Any member of the Radiolaria.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Radiolaria.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of many
marine amoeboid protozoa , of subclassRadiolaria , havingfilamentous pseudopodia ; they have intricatesilica skeletons
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun protozoa with amoeba-like bodies and radiating filamentous pseudopods
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The stone type quarried is unique to the Sarikaya quarry, as it can be microscopically classified as radiolarian mudstone.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Geological Survey Report 1 2003
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The key to Haeckel's vision was a tiny undersea organism called the radiolarian, one of the earliest forms of life.
Needcoffee.com 2008
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OTOH, how can you resist a guy who uses the word radiolarian in his lyrics?)
your fragile aftershot shock truepenny 2009
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Bird's lyrics often feature archaic language - words such as radiolarian, plecostomus, dermestids, coprophagia - which he chooses mainly for their sound, but not at the expense of their meaning.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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Bird's lyrics often feature archaic language - words such as radiolarian, plecostomus, dermestids, coprophagia - which he chooses mainly for their sound, but not at the expense of their meaning.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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Bird's lyrics often feature archaic language - words such as radiolarian, plecostomus, dermestids, coprophagia - which he chooses mainly for their sound, but not at the expense of their meaning.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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Similarly, among protists, a radiolarian may capture and ingest, more or less indifferently, a bacterium, an autotrophic flagellate, a herbivorous oligotrich ciliate, or another radiolarian (Fig 2E).
Marine microbes 2009
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(Soundbite of music) Mr. BIRD: (Singing) (Unintelligible) radiolarian … BLOCK: What's a radiolarian?
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Here are atoms of silica, once imprisoned in a layer of flint in the subterranean darkness; later, within the fragile shell of a diatom, tossed by waves and warmed by the sun; and again entering into the exquisite structure of a radiolarian shell, that miracle of ephemeral beauty that might be the work of a fairy glass-blower with a snowflake as his pattern.
Undersea (historical) Rachel Louise Carson 2007
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On the table was a glass model that Elizabeth assumed represented some intricate protist organism such as a marine radiolarian.
The Golden Torc May, Julian, 1931- 1981
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