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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of pantostomatous monomastigate flagellate infusorians, containing free-swimming animalcules of minute size and persistent ovate form, without distinct oral aperture, dividing by transverse fission, and found in fresh water, as S. pusilla.

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