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Ciliate vs Suctorian - What's the difference?

ciliate | suctorian |

As nouns the difference between ciliate and suctorian

is that ciliate is any of many protozoa, of the phylum Ciliophora, that have many cilia while suctorian is a protist of the subclass Suctoria in the class class: Phyllopharyngea; a predatory sessile ciliate.

As an adjective ciliate

is ciliated.

ciliate

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (biology) Ciliated.
  • Of or pertaining to the eyelash.

    • Noun

    (wikipedia ciliate) (en noun)
  • (zoology) Any of many protozoa, of the phylum Ciliophora, that have many cilia.

    • suctorian

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A protist of the subclass Suctoria in the class ; a predatory sessile ciliate.
  • *2011 , Terence Allen and Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction , Oxford 2011, p. 11:
  • *:If the tentacles are touched, the ‘prey’ is instantly paralysed, and the contents of its body are sucked down the tentacle into the body of the suctorian , reducing the prey to a shrivelled husk in a matter of minutes.

    • Hypernyms

    * phyllopharyngean * ciliophoran * alveolate * protist * eukaryote * microbe

    See also

    * (Suctoria)

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