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Rotifer vs Tardigrade - What's the difference?

rotifer | tardigrade |

As nouns the difference between rotifer and tardigrade

is that rotifer is any of many minute aquatic multicellular organisms, of the phylum rotifera , that have a ring of cilia resembling a wheel while tardigrade is (zoology) a member of the animal phylum tardigrada.

As an adjective tardigrade is

sluggish; moving slowly.

rotifer

English

(wikipedia rotifer) (Rotifera)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any of many minute aquatic multicellular organisms, of the phylum Rotifera , that have a ring of cilia resembling a wheel

    • tardigrade

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Sluggish; moving slowly.
  • * {{quote-book, passage=Each tendril ending in a perfect claw, / Obeys the whole routine of Nature's law; / Transforms each sinus to a sylvan shade, / Though p'rhaps its force is rather tardigrade .
    • , title=Poems , author=Joses Badcock , volume=1 , year=1850 , page=67 , pageurl=http://books.google.ca/books?id=Q2d38wvcxq8C&pg=PA67&lpg=PA67&dq=%22rather+tardigrade%22&source=bl&ots=x4Gez6VUbE&sig=t3gojjAeUgUhg5mP7MnPnTiTs-Y&hl=en&sa=X&ei=3RT_T5DrPIWlrQHokLGLCQ&redir_esc=y
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    • , chapter=Botany; or, Phytology}}
  • * {{quote-book, passage=He ran on into the piazza, but he quickly heard the tramp of feet behind him, for the other two prisoners had been released, and the soldiers were struggling and fighting their way after them, in such tardigrade fashion as their hoof-shaped shoes would allow—impeded, but not very resolutely attacked, by the people.
    • , year=1863 , title=(Romola) , author=(George Eliot)}}
  • * {{quote-book, passage=In sorrow, its voice is tardigrade but loud, dragging time at a snail's pace before our eyes.
    • , title=Century One , page=92 , pageurl=http://books.google.ca/books?id=8ntoWUQDgyQC&pg=PA92&lpg=PA92&dq=%22is+tardigrade%22&source=bl&ots=eUM3LA-Y__&sig=Lie_V6QtujBCtIFmExvkC3vCwzE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=TRf_T5n5KMimrQG8uJyLCQ&ved=0CD4Q6AEwAg
  • v=onepage&q=%22is%20tardigrade%22&f=false
    • , chapter=The Metronome , author=Richard S. Conde , year=2001 , isbn=0-595-16296-7}}
    Derived terms
    * (l)

    Etymology 2

    (wikipedia tardigrade) From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (zoology) A member of the animal phylum Tardigrada.
    • Synonyms
    * water bear