| 单词 | sun animalcule |
| 释义 | > as lemmassun animalcule sun animalcule n. [after German Sonnentierchen (1804 or earlier)] any of the protozoans of the order Heliozoa, esp. Actinophrys sol, typically having a spherical body with numerous long slender radial pseudopodia (thought to resemble an image of the sun); = heliozoan n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > protozoa > class Sarcodina > order Heliozoa > [noun] > member of sun animalcule1841 1841 A. Pritchard Hist. Infusoria 280 Genus..Actinophrys. The sun Animalcules.—Enchelian Infusoria, of a globular shape, covered with setaceous tentacula. 1959 Amer. Midland Naturalist 61 439 Two specimens of the ‘sun animalcule’, Actinophrys sol, were observed in the zooplankton samples from Dead Hat Pond. 2010 A. Wilson Photographing Pattern & Design in Nature iv. 55/1 The heliozoans or sun animalcules,..are absolutely beautiful when viewed under a microscope. < as lemmas |
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