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PROTISTAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does protistan mean?
• PROTISTAN (noun)
The noun PROTISTAN has 1 sense:
1. free-living or colonial organisms with diverse nutritional and reproductive modes
Familiarity information: PROTISTAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Free-living or colonial organisms with diverse nutritional and reproductive modes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
protist; protistan
Hypernyms ("protistan" is a kind of...):
micro-organism; microorganism (any organism of microscopic size)
Holonyms ("protistan" is a member of...):
division Protista; Protista (eukaryotic one-celled living organisms distinct from multicellular plants and animals: protozoa, slime molds, and eukaryotic algae)
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