protozoan

1. 1.

   of or relating to the Protozoa

   Synonymsprotozoalprotozoic

Other forms of protozoan

plural

protozoa

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about protozoan

What does protozoan mean?

protozoan means "any of diverse minute acellular or unicellular organisms usually nonphotosynthetic". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in protozoan?

protozoan has 4 syllables: pro-to-zo-an. The stress falls on "zo". In IPA it is /ˌpɹoʊtəˈzoʊən/.

What is another word for protozoan?

Close synonyms include protozoon, protozoal, protozoic. 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 protozoan a common word?

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.