vorticella in English
noun
1
a sedentary, single-celled aquatic animal with a contractile stalk and a bell-shaped body bearing a ring of cilia.
On first visual inspection, the vorticella appeared as a small patch of fungus, about 8mm in diameter.
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1. Vorticella, genus of the ciliate protozoan order Peritrichida, a bell-shaped or cylindrical organism with a conspicuous ring of cilia (hairlike processes) on the oral end and a contractile unbranched stalk on the Aboral end; cilia usually are not found between the oral and Aboral ends