rotifer
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of rotifer
From New Latin, dating back to 1785–95; see origin at Rotifera
Example Sentences
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Work in Gribble's lab by postdoctoral scientist Alyssa Liguori, who is now an assistant professor at SUNY-New Paltz, examined two different genotypes from the same rotifer species.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
But even that near-suspension of animation would have nothing on a rotifer: one of these microscopic animals, pulled out of Siberian permafrost, spent the past 25,000 years in a frozen nap before being reanimated.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 27, 2021
Three researchers at Harvard and Woods Hole sequenced portions of the genome of a certain rotifer and found all sorts of craziness that shouldn’t have been there.
From New York Times ● Aug. 13, 2018
The winning rotifer is found in few places in the world, some of them in Moreno’s favorite lake in Panama, Lake Miraflores near Gamboa along the Panama Canal.
From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2014
In the common rotifer these organs are situated on the proboscis, while those of the Philodina are lower, and said to be "cervical."
From Marvels of Pond-life A Year's Microscopic Recreations by Henry J. Slack
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