Meaning

1 senses
  1. A protozoan.

More definitions
  • any of diverse minute acellular or unicellular organisms usually nonphotosynthetic

Examples

1 sentences
  1. The amoeba is a protozoon.

    Амеба належить до найпростіших. — deniko

    ruАмёба - простейшее. — Selena777

Origin

From proto- + -zoon.

From proto- + -zoon.

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Forms

plural: protozoa
Singularprotozoon
Pluralprotozoa

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Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • any of diverse minute acellular or unicellular organisms usually nonphotosynthetic:protozoan

Word family

1 related words
Relatedprotozoan

See also

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