Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Microscopic animals, or Microscopica; Microzoaria.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun plural (Zoöl.) The Infusoria.

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  • Owing to this impasse, biologists remained at odds concerning the spontaneous generation of microzoa until around 1860, when Pasteur came to the problem from his interest in the biochemistry of fermentation, which could not be properly investigated without first understanding the origin and role of the varieties of micro-organism present in fermenting liquids.

    SPONTANEOUS GENERATION ARAM VARTANIAN 1968

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