Definition of Order Polymastigina

1. Noun. Small usually parasitic flagellates.

Exact synonyms: Polymastigina
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Subclass Zoomastigina, Zoomastigina
Member holonyms: Polymastigote, Genus Costia, Genus Giardia, Chilomastix, Genus Chilomastix, Genus Hexamita, Hexamita, Genus Trichomonas

Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Polymastigina

order Phasmida
order Pholidota
order Picariae
order Piciformes
order Piperales
order Plantaginales
order Platyctenea
order Plecoptera
order Plectognathi
order Pleuronectiformes
order Plumbaginales
order Podicipediformes
order Podicipitiformes
order Polemoniales
order Polygonales
order Polymastigina (current term)
order Polypodiales
order Primates
order Primulales
order Proboscidea
order Procellariiformes
order Proteales
order Protura
order Pseudomonadales
order Pseudoscorpiones
order Pseudoscorpionida
order Psilophytales
order Psilotales
order Psittaciformes
order Psocoptera

Literary usage of Order Polymastigina

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

1. The Animal Parasites of Man by Harold Benjamin Fantham, Maximilian Gustav Christian Carl Braun (1916)
"... it happens that certain forms cannot with certainty be included in the group because their description is insufficient. Order. Polymastigina, Blochmann. ..."

2. Pathogenic microorganisms by William Hallock Park (1920)
"... and in the order Polymastigina the genera Trichomonas and Lamblia have been found in human beings. ..."

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