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