Definitions for Paramecium

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Paramecium par·a·me·ci·um

Spelling: [par-uh-mee-shee-uh m, -shuh m, -see- Paramecium is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

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Definitions for Paramecium

noun

1. any ciliated freshwater protozoan of the genus Paramecium, having an oval body and a long, deep oral groove.

Origin of Paramecium

1745-55; New Latin Greek paramḗk(ēs) oblong, oval + New Latin -ium noun suffix; see -ium

Examples for Paramecium

Swimming vigorously in the water, they devote themselves to chasing the paramecium.

Jennings found a number of races of paramecium of different sizes living under natural conditions.

The neurone, however, is a little unicellular animal, like the amoeba or the paramecium.

The paramecium are propagated by spontaneous division, as already described.