Definitions for Rotifera

Rotifera Ro·tif·er·a

Spelling: [roh-tif-er-uh]
IPA: /roʊˈtɪf ər ə/

Rotifera is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 242 anagrams from letters in Rotifera (aefiorrt).

Definitions for Rotifera

noun

  1. the phylum or class comprising the rotifers.

Origin of Rotifera

1820-30; New Latin, equivalent to Latin rot(a) wheel + -i- -i- + -fera, neuter plural of -fer -fer

Examples for Rotifera

See an account of the Rotifera and their faculty of repeated vivifaction, in the note appended to this chapter.

Those examples are provided by Rotifera (inferior worms) and by Ephemerid.

Such small creatures as Daphnia pulex, Cyclops quadricornis and Rotifera should be introduced into ponds.

Others, again, include the Rotifera in the second subdivision.

Rotatoria (rta, a wheel) or Rotifera (rota and fero, to bear).

The head extends from the top of the vase, and is surmounted with the usual cilia, or wheel, which we see among all the Rotifera.

In the radiated forms of the Rotifera, and the simple structure of the polypi rudes, we are reminded of the radiata.

The Cyclops feed on smaller aquatic animals such as Protozoa, Rotifera, etc.

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