vorticella|vorticellae|vorticellas in English
noun
one-celled organism with a bell-shaped body that attaches itself to underwater plants by means of a slender stalk
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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