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Free-living or colonial organisms with diverse nutritional and reproductive modes
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protist
Word definitions for protist in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. free-living or colonial organisms with diverse nutritional and reproductive modes [syn: protistan ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Protist \Pro"tist\, n. (Zo["o]l.) One of the Protista.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Protists are the members of an informal grouping of diverse eukaryotic organisms that are not animals , plants or fungi . They do not form a natural group, or clade , but are often grouped together for convenience, like algae or invertebrates . In some ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context microbiology English) Any of the eukaryote unicellular organisms including protozoans, slime molds and some algae; historically grouped into the kingdom ''Protoctista''. 2 # single celled eukaryotes + prokaryotes + sponges (to 1959) 3 # single-celled ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1869, from Modern Latin Protista (German Protisten , Haeckel, 1868), from Greek neuter plural of protistos "the very first," superlative of protos "first" (see proto- ).
Usage examples of protist.
Compared with the bacteria that had gone before, these new protists were wonders of design and sophistication.
Mammals, marsupials, monotremes, birds, reptiles, worms, insects, arachnids, crustaceans, planaria, nematodes, protists, fungi, even a horticultural center.
Earth, he sought to understand the evolution of the bacteria and protists, the fungi, plants, animals and all the alien kingdoms of life.
Old Earth and a million other worlds much like Earth, he sought to understand the evolution of the bacteria and protists, the fungi, plants, animals and all the alien kingdoms of life.
Both the oceans and the land harbor large populations of protist and multicellular autotrophs.
There are many different varieties of pathogen: viruses, bacteria, fungi, protists (formerly known as protozoa), and metazoans such as nematodes.