单词 | cryptomonad |
释义 | cryptomonadn. Biology. Any of a group of flattened elliptical flagellates, formerly regarded as protozoans by zoologists or as green algae by botanists, and typically characterized by chloroplasts and two flagella.Now often treated as the protist phylum Cryptomonada (or Cryptophyta). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > protozoa > class Flagellata or Mastigophora > subclass Flagellidia > [noun] > order Phytoflagellida > member of family Cryptomonadidae cryptomonad1841 cryptophyte1962 1841 A. Pritchard Hist. Infusoria 114 All the genera..are provided with organs of locomotion, which consist, as with the Monads and Cryptomonads, of a single or double flagelliform proboscis, of very delicate texture. 1913 New Phytologist 12 79 The greatest advances in the study of those Flagellates which are more obviously important in connexion with the phylogeny of the Algæ have been made among the Chrysomonads and Cryptomonads. 1967 L. E. Noland & M. Gojdics in T.-T. Chen Res. Protozool. II. 239 The zooxanthellae found in Radiolaria and Foraminifera..are probably specialized dinoflagellates or cryptomonads. 2001 Guardian 26 Apr. (Science section) 2/6 It could be that the nucleomorph is maintained because its particular service to the chloroplast in cryptomonads is vital. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1841 |
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