vorticeln.
/ˈvɔːtɪsɛl/ Zoology.
= vorticella n.
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1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals II. xvii. 97 Some, as the vorticels, the wheel-animals by way of eminence, appear to have two wheels.
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