Definitions for protists

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protists pro·tist

Spelling: [proh-tist]

IPA: /ˈproʊ tɪst/

Protists is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 211 anagrams from letters in protists (ioprsstt).

Definitions for protists

noun

1. 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 protists

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 protists

Human psychology is inseparably connected with comparative animal psychology, and this again with that of the plants and protists.

The great majority of the protists have the appearance of real, nucleated cells.

This monogenetic propagation is very common among the protists, both protophyta and protozoa.

It is only in the case of the protists that the morphological unity is bound up with the physiological.

(1894 protists and Plants, 1895 Vertebrates, 1896 Invertebrates).

It seems desirable to do the same for the science of the protists, or unicellular organisms.