Definition of Arcellidae

1. Noun. Soil and freshwater protozoa; cosmopolitan in distribution.

Exact synonyms: Family Arcellidae
Generic synonyms: Protoctist Family
Group relationships: Order Testacea, Testacea
Member holonyms: Genus Arcella

Lexicographical Neighbors of Arcellidae

Arbuthnotian
Arbutus menziesii
Arbutus unedo
Arbëresh
Arbëreshë Albanian
Arc de Triomphe
Arca
Arcadia
Arcadian
Arcadians
Arcadic
Arcado-Cypriot
Arcady
Arcanobacterium
Arcanobacterium haemolyticum
Arcellidae
Arceuthobium
Arceuthobium pusillum
Archaean
Archaebacteria
Archaeopteryx lithographica
Archaeornithes
Archaeozoic
Archaeozoic aeon
Archaic Latin
Archangel
Archea
Archean
Archean aeon
Archean eon

Literary usage of Arcellidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Manual of the Common Invertebrate Animals: Exclusive of Insects by Henry Sherring Pratt (1916)
"arcellidae. Shell membranous and consisting of a single chamber, ... Key to the genera of arcellidae here described: a, Shell covered with sand or other ..."

2. Insectivorous Plants by Charles Darwin (1889)
"... probably one of the arcellidae. In this bladder, as well as in several others, there were some unicellular Algae, and one multicellular Alga, ..."

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