ciliated protozoan

Questions about ciliated protozoan

What does ciliated protozoan mean?

ciliated protozoan means "a protozoan with a microscopic appendage extending from the surface of the cell".

What is another word for ciliated protozoan?

Close synonyms include ciliate, ciliophoran. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ciliated protozoan a common word?

ciliated protozoan is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.