Definitions for Difflugia

Difflugia Dif·flu·gi·a

Spelling: [dih-floo-jee-uh]
IPA: /dɪˈflu dʒi ə/

Difflugia is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 150 anagrams from letters in Difflugia (adffgiilu).

Definitions for Difflugia

noun

  1. 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

Examples for Difflugia

Dujardin points out very clearly the identity of structure between organisms like Amœbæ and such forms as Difflugia and Arcella.

Difflugia may make use of grains of sand to form its test, but all protozoa conjugate.

Equally striking are the interesting experiments that Jennings has recently carried out with Difflugia (fig. 91).

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