colpoda
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of colpoda
1790; < New Latin, equivalent to Greek kolpṓd ( ēs ) embosomed, embayed ( kólp ( os ) bosom + -ōdēs -ode 1 ) + Latin -a -a 2
Example Sentences
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These may be, however, only individual variations of a widely spread species, and I believe it is perfectly safe to describe this as Colpidium colpoda.
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And if this were not sufficient evidence of the animality of Colpoda, there comes the fact that it is even more similar to another well-known animalcule, Paramoecium, than it is to a monad.
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Obviously, although the Colpoda is not a monad, it differs from one only in subordinate details.
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The colpoda—undoubted infusoria—behave in an exactly similar manner.
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