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n. (context zoology English) An oval-shaped protozoan organism of the genus (taxlink Paramecium genus noshow=1).
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Paramecium (, or , ) is a genus of unicellular ciliated protozoan, commonly studied as a representative of the ciliate group. Paramecia are widespread in freshwater, brackish, and marine environments and are often very abundant in stagnant basins and ponds. Because some species are readily cultivated and easily induced to conjugate and divide, it has been widely used in classrooms and laboratories to study biological processes. Its usefulness as a model organism has caused one ciliate researcher to characterize it as the " white rat" of the phylum Ciliophora.
Usage examples of "paramecium".
A shark-sized paramecium, cilia flailing, flew across the walls, then swam over their heads, and then plunged for the bottom.
Looking down through the floor, Alex and Ralph saw the great paramecium foraging for food.
Alex stopped again, his eyes fixed on a smaller paramecium that was cruising gently back and forth at about eye level.
As the paramecium glided along, its cilia moving in coordinated undulations, Alex, silent in his sneakers, followed, the tip of his nose tracing a path along the glass.
And if you hit a paramecium just right, directly in the center of the main cell nucleus, it exploded.
Each kid had three minutes at the ZoaZap and for each paramecium destroyed, fifteen seconds was added to his time -- up to a maximum of ten minutes.
When the paramecium bursaria runs out of food, all he needs to do is stay in the sun and his green endosymbionts will keep him supplied as though he were a grain.
If you wanted to see with your naked eye a paramecium swimming in a drop of water, you would have to enlarge the drop until it was some forty feet across.
Thick white billows wrapped its long oval form like a paramecium engulfed by an amoeba.
It is said that as we are to the amoeba and the paramecium so are the Priest-Kings to us, that the highest and most lyric flights of our intellect are, when compared to the thought of the Priest-Kings, but the chemical tropisms of the unicellular organism.
D-One squinting, looking at the attorney as one might a deformed paramecium under a microscope.
A single line of paramecium would continue to reproduce that way until, by the law of averages, its dominant traits would all be non-survival ones, and bangno more paramecia.
One paramecium rests beside another, and gradually their contracting side walls begin to fuse.
I saw her as a glowing paramecium, a jellyfish, a glass police car, and a demonic art patron.
I run to the corner of my living room, staring at the luminous paramecium the size of a dog in mid-air.