| 单词 | wreath animalcule |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswreath animalcule wreath animalcule n. Biology (now historical) a dinoflagellate, esp. one of Ehrenberg's genus Peridinium (order Peridiniales in later classifications). [After German Kranzthierchen (1835 or earlier), referring to the transverse flagellum encircling the cell (formerly mistaken for a ciliary band).] ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > protozoa > class Flagellata or Mastigophora > subclass Dinoflagellida > [noun] > member of order Peridinales > member of genus Peridinium wreath animalcule1841 1841 A. Pritchard Hist. Infusoria 246 Peridinium. The wreath Animalcules. 1955 G. F. Papenfuss in Cent. Progr. Nat. Sci. 1853–1953 (Calif. Acad. Sci.) 156 Ehrenberg..placed them..in his twelfth family, the Peridinaea or ‘Kranzthierchen’ (wreath animalcules), which formed the last family in his group ‘Polygastrica anentera’. < as lemmas |
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