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Definition of Infusoria

Infusoria
Infusoria In`fu*so"ri*a, n. pl. [NL.; -- so called because found in infusions which are left exposed to the air for a time. See Infuse.] (Zo["o]l.) One of the classes of Protozoa, including a large number of species, all of minute size. Note: They are found in all seas, lakes, ponds, and streams, as well as in infusions of organic matter exposed to the air. They are distinguished by having vibrating lashes or cilia, with which they obtain their food and swim about.They are devided into the orders Flagellata, Ciliata, and Tentaculifera. See these words in the Vocabulary. Formely the term Infusoria was applied to all microscopic organisms found in water, including many minute plants, belonging to the diatoms, as well as minute animals belonging to various classes, as the Rotifera, which are worms; and the Rhizopoda, which constitute a distinct class of Protozoa. Fossil Infusoria are mostly the siliceous shells of diatoms; sometimes they are siliceous skeletons of Radiolaria, or the calcareous shells of Foraminifera.
Infusoria
Protozoa, including Infusoria and Rhizopoda. For definitions, see these names in the Vocabulary.

Meaning of Infusoria from wikipedia

- Infusoria is a word used to describe various freshwater microorganisms, including ciliates, copepods, euglenoids, planktonic crustaceans, protozoa, unicellular...
- Historia (2 vols. in 4to, Copenhagen and Leipzig, 1773–74), he arranged the Infusoria for the first time into genera and species. His Hydrachnæ in Aquis Daniæ...
- Paraptila Species: P. gamma Binomial name Paraptila gamma (Walsingham, 1914) Synonyms Tortrix gamma Walsingham, 1914 Paraptila infusoria Meyrick, 1926...
- different group of workers (e.g., O. F. Müller and Ehrenberg) studying the Infusoria (microscopic organisms). Unlike macroalgae, which were clearly viewed...
- microscope. It was then that scholars discovered ****tozoa, bacteria, infusoria and the diversity of microscopic life. Investigations by Jan Swam****am...
- JSTOR 102304. Müller, Otto Frederik; Fabricius, Otto (1786). Animalcula Infusoria, Fluvia Tilia et Marina. Hauniae, Typis N. Mölleri. pp. 126, 473. Ehrenberg...
- Insecta, and Mollusca, Annelida, Cirripedia, Radiata, Coelenterata and Infusoria from the Linnean Vermes. They are now classified into over 30 phyla, from...
- behaviour." The earliest record of a Peranema is in O.F. Müller's Animalcula Infusoria of 1786, which describes an "elongated linear" creature, "stretched out...
- food is given. The baby fry feed on small organisms called infusoria and algae. To grow infusoria for feeding just get a jam jar of pond water and run it...
- the level of a phylum containing two broad classes of microorganisms: Infusoria (mostly ciliates) and flagellates (flagellated protists and amoebae)....