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Definition of Euglena
1. Noun. Minute single-celled green freshwater organism having a single flagella; often classed as algae.
Definition of Euglena
1. Noun. (biology) Any of several protists, of the genus ''Euglena'', that contain chloroplasts and a single flagellum ¹
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Definition of Euglena
1. a freshwater protozoan [n -S]
Medical Definition of Euglena
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Euglena
Literary usage of Euglena
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lessons in elementary biology by Thomas Jeffery Parker (1905)
"LESSON IV euglena THE rain-water collected in puddles by the road-side, on roofs,
&c., is often found to have a bright green colour : this is sometimes due ..."
2. College zoology by Robert William Hegner (1918)
"Order i. Flagellata. — MASTIGOPHORA with one or more flagella at the anterior
end of the body. Examples: euglena (Fig. ..."
3. Aquatic Microscopy for Beginners: Or, Common Objects from the Ponds and Ditches by Alfred Cheatham Stokes (1918)
"It is often absent from an old euglena. At the posterior end is a short, pointed,
stiff, ... This crimson euglena is supposed to have been the cause, ..."
4. Photo-micrographs and how to Make Them by George Miller Sternberg (1883)
"... and separated from the euglena (with which it has been generally associated), —
the latter being pretty certainly a plant, belonging to the same group ..."
5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1900)
"The flagellum of euglena viridis possesses a bifurcate base, which is attached
to the wall of the excretory reservoir at the anterior end of the body.1 As ..."
6. A Course in Invertebrate Zoölogy: A Guide to the Dissection and Comparative by Henry Sherring Pratt (1901)
"euglena This single-celled organism, which combines the characters of animals
... Mount a drop of water containing euglena on a slide and study it under the ..."
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