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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In zoology, same as protozoan.
  • In geology, containing the earliest traces of life.

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

  • adjective (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Protozoa.
  • adjective (Geol.) Containing remains of the earliest discovered life of the globe, which included mollusks, radiates and protozoans.

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  • adjective of, or relating to the protozoa

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  • adjective of or relating to the Protozoa

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Examples

  • A lustreless protrusive eye Stares from the protozoic slime the future looks fine

    david swanson : honeymoon over 2008

  • Page 310, Volume 4 of microcosmic heterogenesis, it should be stressed that the technical inability, in the seventeenth and eight - eenth centuries, to ascertain the modes of protozoic reproduction did not lead to the revival of the idea on the same uncritical footing that it had known in the pre-Radi past.

    SPONTANEOUS GENERATION ARAM VARTANIAN 1968

  • 'Do you really mean to tell me that right away in the Himalayas you found the same little protozoic blot in the same limestone that you find in our own Andes?

    Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray

  • Even the first dawn of protozoic life in the primordial seas must have been natural, or it would not have occurred, -- must have been potential in what went before it.

    Time and Change John Burroughs 1879

  • The evolutionist teaches essentially the same thing, only he does not abridge the process as the catechism has abridged it for us; he would fain unfold the whole long road that man has traveled from the first protozoic cell to the vast communities of cells that now make up his physical life.

    Time and Change John Burroughs 1879

  • The earliest ancestors of our race were simple Protophyta, and from these our protozoic ancestors were developed afterwards.

    The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

  • So on a protozoic level you might have simple discussion or unchallenged focus I specialize in the use of a single toothbrush and consequently, given that toothbrushes’ historical context, not many people are going to have a more useful proposal for its use.

    From Whence Do Property Titles Arise? 2009

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