CILIOPHORA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ciliophora mean? 

• CILIOPHORA (noun)
  The noun CILIOPHORA has 1 sense:

1. class of protozoa having cilia or hairlike appendages on part or all of the surface during some part of the life cycle

  Familiarity information: CILIOPHORA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CILIOPHORA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Class of protozoa having cilia or hairlike appendages on part or all of the surface during some part of the life cycle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Ciliata; Ciliophora; class Ciliata; class Ciliophora

Hypernyms ("Ciliophora" is a kind of...):

class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

Meronyms (members of "Ciliophora"):

ciliate; ciliated protozoan; ciliophoran (a protozoan with a microscopic appendage extending from the surface of the cell)

Infusoria; subclass Infusoria (in some recent classifications, coextensive with the Ciliata: minute organisms found in decomposing infusions of organic matter)

genus Paramecium (freshwater ciliate with an oval body and long deep oral groove)

genus Tetrahymena (protozoa having four membranous ciliary organelles)

genus Stentor (trumpet-shaped protozoa with a ciliated spiral feeding funnel)

genus Vorticella (ciliated protozoans that have a goblet-shaped body with a retractile stalk)

Holonyms ("Ciliophora" is a member of...):

phylum Protozoa; Protozoa (in some classifications considered a superphylum or a subkingdom; comprises flagellates; ciliates; sporozoans; amoebas; foraminifers)