infusorial
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of infusorial
First recorded in 1840–50; Infusori(a) + -al 1
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And as in any drop of ditch water, the action in Cain's tales is of infusorial violence.
From Time Magazine Archive
Parts of the lake seen from a short distance appeared of a reddish colour, and this perhaps was owing to some infusorial animalcula.
From The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
The infusorial animalcules do so, reversing the functions of animal life, and instead of evolving carbonic acid gas, as other animals do, evolve pure oxygen.
From Glaucus, or the Wonders of the Shore by Charles Kingsley
Three days' exposure to the dusty air suffices to render them muddy, fetid, and swarming with infusorial life.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by John Tyndall
The subject alluded to has long been well- known in the arts, under the name of infusorial earth or mountain meal, and is used in the form of powder for polishing stones and metals.
From The Student's Elements of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
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