Blepharisma
noun
Bleph·a·risma
: a genus of large ovoid or pyriform frequently rose-colored free-living ciliates (order Spirotricha) having the peristome highly developed
Word History
Etymology
borrowed from New Latin, from Greek blepharid-, blepharís "eyelash" + New Latin -isma, probably after Lepisma Lepisma and similar genus names (borrowed from Greek -ismat-, -isma, suffix of nominal derivatives from verb stems ending in -id-, -iz-)
Note: Genus defined by the Bavarian-born naturalist Maximilian Perty (1804-84) in "Mikroskopische Organismen der Alpen und der italienischen Schweiz," Mittheilungen der naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Bern, No. 164/165 (November, 1849), p. 170. The name alludes to the Wimperreihen ("rows of cilia") in Perty's description of the organism; note that Wimper in German means both "eyelash" and "cilium".
- leaf trace
- leaf-and-dart
- leaf-and-tongue
- leaf-blister sawfly
- leaf-book
- leaf-bud cutting
- leaf-climbing
- leaf-cushion
- leaf-cutter
- leaf-cutting bee
- leaf-drop streak
- leaf-eating ladybird
- leaf-foot bug
- leaf-footed
- leaf-footed bug
- leaf-mining
- leaf-nosed
- leaf-nosed snake
- leaf-peeping
- leaf-raker
- leaf-raking
- leaf-shaped
- leaf-tailed gecko
- leafage
- leafages