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Definition of Euglenoid
1. Noun. Marine and freshwater green or colorless flagellate organism.
Generic synonyms: Alga, Algae
Group relationships: Division Euglenophyta, Euglenophyta
Definition of Euglenoid
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Euglenoid
Literary usage of Euglenoid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1903)
"It would indeed simplify the comprehension of the two theories of Sporozoan
ancestry if they were termed the hypotheses of the amoeboid and the euglenoid ..."
2. Outlines of Botany for the High School Laboratory and Classroom by Robert Greenleaf Leavitt, Charles Herbert Clark, Mrs. Sophia M'Ilvaine (Bledsoe) Herrick, Asa Gray (1898)
"The possession of a cellulose wall in the encysted condition, and the occurrence
of chlorophyl would place Euglena among plants; the euglenoid movements and ..."
3. Lessons in Elementary Biology by Thomas Jeffery Parker (1900)
"A—I), four views of the living organism, showing the changes of form produced by
the characteristic euglenoid movements. E, enlarged view, showing the ..."
4. Zoology: An Elementary Text-book by Arthur Everett Shipley, Ernest William MacBride (1904)
"The peculiar wriggling movements which it thus executes are so unlike anything
else that they have been called euglenoid. ..."
5. Forms of Animal Life: A Manual of Comparative Anatomy : with Descriptions of by George Rolleston, William Hatchett Jackson (1888)
"A lens-like structure is said to co-exist with the stigma in the euglenoid P/iacus,
and a colourless strongly refractile body in the position of a stigma in ..."
6. A Laboratory Manual in Practical Botany by Charles Herbert Clark (1898)
"Hunt for forms that are executing the euglenoid movements. Study the changes of
form, and draw Eug- lenye in three or four typical positions. 2. ..."