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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;
pro•tis•tan (prō tis′tən),USA pronunciation adj., n. pro•tis′tic, adj. |