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Definition of Paramecia

1. Noun. Any member of the genus Paramecium.

Definition of Paramecia

1. Noun. (plural of paramecium) ¹

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Definition of Paramecia

1. paramecium [n] - See also: paramecium

Lexicographical Neighbors of Paramecia

Literary usage of Paramecia

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

1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1899)
"The quantity of CO2 thus produced by one of the dense assemblages of paramecia was shown to be distinctly appreciable by chemical reagents, by means of the ..."

2. Behavior of the Lower Organisms by Herbert Spencer Jennings (1906)
"The paramecia at a distance FIG. 42. - A slide of paramecia is from the cooled region do not turn heated to 40 or 45 degrees, then a drop of and swim ..."

3. A Text-book of Biology for Students in General, Medical and Technical Courses by William Martin Smallwood (1918)
"Kinds of paramecia.—In most cultures of paramecia, there will be found animals which fall into two general classes: (1) "Caudatum Group (Paramecium ..."

4. Marvels of pond-life; or, A year's microscopic recreations among the polyps by Henry James Slack (1878)
"|HE paramecia, noticed in the last chapter, have increased and multiplied their kind without any fear lest the due adjustment between population and food ..."

5. Pamphlets in Philology and the Humanities by Edward Wheeler Scripture, Fred Newton Scott, Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay, Clarence Linton Meader, Carl Schurz, Merle Harrold Thorpe, James Geddes, Calvin Milton Woodward, Orestes Pearle Rhyne, Claud Howard, Roger Wells, Otto Eduard Lessing (1907)
"The paramecia swim back and forth in the colorless area (that is, ... The paramecia collect closely about the CO2, pressing against the bubble. ..."

6. Biological Lectures Delivered at the Marine Biological Laboratory of Wood's (1900)
"into a preparation of paramecia, they soon collect closely about it and swim ... It was then proved, by introducing the paramecia into a solution of rosol ..."

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