tardigrade

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The researchers report in Current Biology that two species of tardigrade (there are about 1,000 of them), were able to survive in space.

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  1. noun Any of various slow-moving, microscopic invertebrates of the phylum Tardigrada, related to the arthropods and having four body segments and eight legs and living in water or damp moss. Also called water bear.
  2. adjective Of or belonging to the Tardigrada.
  3. adjective Slow in action; slow-moving.

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  1. New Latin Tardigrada, phylum name, from neuter pl. of Latin tardigradus, slow-moving : tardus, slow + -gradus, walking, moving (from gradī, to go; see transgress). Adj., sense 2, from Latin tardigradus.

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  1. from Latin tardigradus, slow-going, slow-paced, from tardus, slow, + gradi, go, walk: see grade.
 

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