NOUN
- any of various protozoa having a transparent goblet-shaped body with a retractile stalk
How To Use vorticella In A Sentence
- At the end of each branch is situated an infusorian (vorticella), and the whole colony represents in itself the genealogical family tree. Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891
- Although vorticellas are often found in clusters, each stalk is individually attached to the surface.
- On first visual inspection, the vorticella appeared as a small patch of fungus, about 8mm in diameter.
- Here then was the cup or calyx of a definite vorticellan form changing into (?) an absolutely different infusorian, viz., Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888
- Among them are the bell-shaped protozoans called vorticellas that live in fresh or salt water, often in colonies that may contain between five and several hundred organisms.
