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Difflugia

[dih-floo-jee-uh]

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noun

a genus of ameboid protozoans that construct a shell of cemented sand grains.

Origin of Difflugia

< New Latin (1816), equivalent to Latin difflu(ere) to flow away (see diffluent) + -g- (unexplained) + -ia -ia

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Historical Examples of difflugia

Equally striking are the interesting experiments that Jennings has recently carried out with Difflugia (fig. 91).
A Critique of the Theory of Evolution
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Dujardin points out very clearly the identity of structure between organisms like Amœbæ and such forms as Difflugia and Arcella.
The Ocean World:
Louis Figuier
Difflugia may make use of grains of sand to form its test, but all protozoa conjugate.
Beauty and the Beast
Stewart A. McDowall