单词 | protist |
释义 | protist —protistan /proh tis"teuhn/, adj. , n. —protistic, adj. /proh"tist/, n. any 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. [1885-90; < NL Protista (neut. pl.) name of the kingdom < Gk prótistos (masc. sing.) the very first, superl. of prôtos first; see PROTO-] |
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