Rotifera
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Rotifera
1820–30; < New Latin, equivalent to Latin rot ( a ) wheel + -i- -i- + -fera, neuter plural of -fer -fer
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The term is not applicable to a particular zoological type, but it is customary to confine it to the 'Protozoa', 'Rotifera', or 'Wheel Animalcules'.
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Certain minute organisms, familiarly known as "Wheel-Animalcules," or Rotifers, form the "class" Rotifera.
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"You do not know much more than the names, then, of Infusoria, Rotifera, and Pedunculata, and such things?"
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SPALLANZANI, in his experiments on the Rotifera, did not find that any survived after the sixteenth alternation of desiccation and damping, but paste-eels bore seventeen of those vicissitudes.
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On Lacinularia socialis, a contribution to the anatomy and physiology of the Rotifera, in the "Transactions of the Microscopical Society" 4.
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