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PARAMECIA

Dictionary entry overview: What does paramecia mean?

• PARAMECIA (noun)
The noun PARAMECIA has 1 sense:

1. any member of the genus Paramecium

Familiarity information: PARAMECIA used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• PARAMECIA (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Any member of the genus Paramecium

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

paramecia; paramecium

Hypernyms ("paramecia" is a kind of...):

ciliate; ciliated protozoan; ciliophoran (a protozoan with a microscopic appendage extending from the surface of the cell)

Holonyms ("paramecia" is a member of...):

genus Paramecium (freshwater ciliate with an oval body and long deep oral groove)

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