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- proper noun A taxonomic
phylum within thekingdom Protista — theprotozoa . - proper noun A taxonomic
kingdom within theempire Eukaryota .
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Examples
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Others, for example, malaria and sleeping sickness, have been shown to be caused by almost equally minute microbes, which are of an animal nature, and similar to the free-living animalcules which we call Protozoa, or
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The whole of the animal kingdom is divided into two great groups, which are called the Protozoa and the Metazoa.
Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions George John Romanes 1871
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The difference of the microbes called bacteria from the disease-causing microbes classed as "Protozoa" consists in their simpler structure and mode of growth.
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(I) As everyone knows, the general idea of the Doctrine of Descent is that the plants and animals of the present day are the lineal descendants of ancestors on the whole somewhat simpler, that these again are descended from yet simpler forms, and so on backwards towards the literal "Protozoa" and "Protophyta" about which we unfortunately know nothing.
Evolution in Modern Thought Gustav Schwalbe 1880
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If I had worked my way from a sponge instead of a lobster, I should have found it associated, by like ties, with a great number of other animals into the sub-kingdom 'Protozoa'; if I had selected a fresh-water polype or a coral, the members of what naturalists term the sub-kingdom
Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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Darren Aronofsky: me and my team at Protozoa did a lot of development, and really worked with Rob a lot.
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He said that after he returned from Toroto in September that he would begin to develop a story/script with his team at Protozoa.
The Fighter: Pitt Out; Wahlberg Worried; Location Scouting | /Film 2008
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Campbell is busy rehearsing a pair of eco-themed plays that will run from 26 August to 9October: Oikos (pronounced "ee-kos", the Greek root for economy and ecology) by Simon Wu, and Protozoa by Kay Adshead.
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Try like hell to get Protozoa, Supermarket Sweep, or Fortune Cookie on here.
Big Directors Small Films: Christopher Nolan’s Doodlebug | /Film 2008
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Protozoa, zooplankton and macrobenthic oligochaeta, Insecta and Mollusca have been studied with particular reference to drought conditions.
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