Definitions for rotifer

rotifer ro·ti·fer

Spelling: [roh-tuh-fer]
IPA: /ˈroʊ tə fər/

Rotifer is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 126 anagrams from letters in rotifer (efiorrt).

Definitions for rotifer

noun

  1. any microscopic animal of the phylum (or class) Rotifera, found in fresh and salt waters, having one or more rings of cilia on the anterior end.

Origin of rotifer

From New Latin, dating back to 1785-95; See origin at Rotifera

Examples for rotifer

It is to the rotifer what this globe, with its twenty-seven thousand miles of circumference is to man.

On one occasion a glimpse was caught of a rotifer similar in shape to the common wheel animalcule, but with a yellow inside.

This rotifer goes through another performance which I also believe to be simply a pastime.

One dries up a rotifer: good night to him; somebody soaks him a little, and he wakes up to bid you good day.

Yet among those animal mountains, where will you find the vivacity, the ardor of vitality, displayed by the rotifer?

In rotifer macrurus the ovary with its germinal vesicles is distinctly seen occupying one side of the animal.

The rotifer vulgaris will even bear revivification several times.

The changes of form in this rotifer are still more remarkable than in the common wheel-bearer.

Its normal form is rigidly adhered to as that of a rotifer or a crustacean.

The Asplanchna, the mouthless male of a rotifer, (p. 292) alone remains for me.

Word Value for rotifer
Scrable

10

Words with friends

10

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