RADIOLARIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does radiolarian mean? 

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

1. protozoa with amoeba-like bodies and radiating filamentous pseudopods

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RADIOLARIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Protozoa with amoeba-like bodies and radiating filamentous pseudopods

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

actinopod (protozoa having stiff rodlike radiating pseudopods)

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

order Radiolaria; Radiolaria (marine protozoa)