Rotifera

American  

[roh-tif-er-uh] / roʊˈtɪf ər ə /

noun

1. the phylum or class comprising the rotifers.

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Etymology

Origin of Rotifera

1820–30; < New Latin, equivalent to Latin rot ( a ) wheel + -i- -i- + -fera, neuter plural of -fer -fer

Example Sentences

Investigating the riot of fungus, lichens, molds, smuts and mildews that festooned the place, Beebe discovered Protozoa, Coelenterata, Platyhelminthes, Nemathelminthes, and Rotifera, and was certain of the existence of Mollusca, Oligochaeta, Hirundinea and Arthropoda.

From Time Magazine Archive

On Lacinularia socialis, a contribution to the anatomy and physiology of the Rotifera, in the "Transactions of the Microscopical Society" 4.

From Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1 by Huxley, Thomas Henry

SPALLANZANI, after thoroughly drying sand rich in Rotifera, kept it for more than three years, moistening portions taken from it every five or six months.

From Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir

If they had exhausted their lives all at once and without these intermissions, these Rotifera and paste-eels would not have lived beyond sixteen or eighteen consecutive days.

From Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir

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.

From Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir