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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024pro•tist (prō′tist),USA pronunciation n. - Microbiology, Biologyany of various one-celled organisms, classified in the kingdom Protista, that are either free-living or aggregated into simple colonies and that have diverse reproductive and nutritional modes, including the protozoans, eukaryotic algae, and slime molds: some classification schemes also include the fungi and the more primitive bacteria and blue-green algae or may distribute the organisms between the kingdoms Plantae and Animalia according to dominant characteristics.
- Greek pró̄tistos (masculine singular) the very first, superlative of prôtos first; see proto-
- Neo-Latin Protista (neuter plural) name of the kingdom
- 1885–90;
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: protist /ˈprəʊtɪst/ n - (in some classification systems) any organism belonging to the kingdom Protista, originally including bacteria, protozoans, algae, and fungi, regarded as distinct from plants and animals. It was later restricted to protozoans, unicellular algae, and simple fungi
See also protoctist
Etymology: 19th Century: from New Latin Protista most primitive organisms, from Greek prōtistos the very first, from prōtos first |