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radio-flagellata

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from The Century Dictionary.

  • An order of animalcules emitting numerous ray-like pseudopodia, after the manner of the Radiolaria, and provided at the same time with one or more flagellate appendages, but having no distinct oral aperture. They are mostly marine. In Kent's system they consist of two families, Actinomonadidæ and Euchitonidæ.

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

  • noun plural (Zoöl.) A group of Protozoa having both flagella and pseudopodia.

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