Definitions for Vorticella

Vorticella vor·ti·cel·la

Spelling: [vawr-tuh-sel-uh]
IPA: /ˌvɔr təˈsɛl ə/

Vorticella is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 781 anagrams from letters in Vorticella (aceillortv).

Definitions for Vorticella

noun

  1. any ciliated protozoan of the genus Vorticella, having a transparent, bell-shaped body with a retractile stalk.

Origin of Vorticella

From New Latin, dating back to 1780-90; See origin at vortex, -ella

Examples for Vorticella

The form and structure of the individuals is not different from vorticella.

The cilia exist at the anterior end, and extend down a lateral fissure as in vorticella.

Your amœba or vorticella, as the case may be, splits in two.

Certainly in this case the organism can not be regarded as a vorticella broken off its stalk, as Kent '81 suspected.

Examine a colony of vorticella in a watch-glass of water or in a drop of water on a glass slide under the microscope.

These were members of the vorticella family, called Cothurnia, and will be hereafter described.

"On the whole—yes," said vorticella, in a tone of concession.

Elie set to work with ardour and found that the stalk of the vorticella had no muscular character.

In some cases the vorticella assumes the form of a Podophrya (fig. 40), the surface becoming covered with tentacle-like processes.

A species of vorticella was probably the first Protozoan that was ever observed.

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