Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An order of the class Infusoria (the Infusoria tentaculifera or suctoria), the adult members of which have no cilia and no proper mouth, and are non-locomotive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) A group of suctorial Infusoria, which in the adult stage are stationary. See
suctoria .
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- noun zoology A group of
suctorial Infusoria, which in the adult stage arestationary . See Suctoria.
Etymologies
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From New Latin, from Ancient Greek ἀκίνητος (akinētos, "unmoved"), from ἀ- (a-, "not") + κινέω (kineō, "I move")
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