Definitions for protist
protist
pro·tist
Spelling: [proh-tist]
IPA: /ˈproʊ tɪst/
Protist is a 7 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.
You can make 168 anagrams from letters in protist (ioprstt).
Definitions for protist
noun
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any of various one-celled organisms, classified in the kingdom Protista, that are either free-living or aggregated into simple colonies and that have diverse reproductive and nutritional modes, including the protozoans, eukaryotic algae, and slime molds: some classification schemes also include the fungi and the more primitive bacteria and blue-green algae or may distribute the organisms between the kingdoms Plantae and Animalia according to dominant characteristics.
Origin of protist
1885-90; New Latin Protista (neuter plural) name of the kingdom Greek prṓtistos (masculine singular) the very first, superlative of prôtos first; see proto-
Examples for protist
The work includes also the few earlier observations of the “psychic life of the protist.”