paramecium

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The wife was present for the paramecium stage of life (she named it "Spiky Poof") and up through its first tentative steps on land (where it became "Ducky Poof").

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  1. noun Any of various freshwater ciliate protozoans of the genus Paramecium, usually oval and having an oral groove for feeding.

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  • Propelled by cilia like a giant paramecium, the piezoplastic boat puttered around the shallow, turbid waters of the south San Francisco Bay. —  Asimov's SF, September 2006
  • I wonder if back pain is the vengeance of evolution, payback for up righting out of the pond, a coalescing of paramecium like two minivans meeting head on in the swale. —  RVABlogs
  • Urocentrum - A relative of the paramecium, Urocentrum is a rotund ciliate slightly bifurcated by a two distinct bands of cilia and sporting a tufted
  • Like Frasier Crane once said, "The man has all the backbone of a paramecium!" —  Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News
  • The wife was present for the paramecium stage of life (she named it "Spiky Poof") and up through its first tentative steps on land (where it became "Ducky Poof"). —  Gaming Nexus
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  1. New Latin Paramēcium, genus name, from Greek paramēkēs, oblong in shape : para-, alongside; see para-1 + mēkos, length; see māk- in Indo-European roots.
 

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