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Protista

Protista \Pro*tis"ta\, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. prw`tistos first.] (Zo["o]l.) A provisional group in which are placed a number of low microscopic organisms of doubtful nature. Some are probably plants, others animals.

Protista

Protiston \Pro*tis"ton\, n.; pl. Protista. [NL.] (Zo["o]l.) One of the Protista.

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A nineteenth-century patch job, Protista is a category so diverse it hardly helps.

Fungi, for their fruiting bodies, or Protista, for their flagellate forms.