Definition of Synura

1. any of a genus of protozoa [n -RAE]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Synura

syntonize
syntony
syntopical
syntopicon
syntroph
syntrophic
syntrophin
syntrophins
syntrophs
syntrophy
syntropic
syntropy
syntype
synuclein
synucleins
synura (current term)
synurae
synæreses
synæresis
synæsthesia
synæsthesiæ
synæsthete
synæsthetic
syon
sype
syped
sypes
syph
sypher
syphered

Literary usage of Synura

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

1. A Treatise on the British Freshwater Algae by George Stephen West (1904)
"Genus synura Ehrenb., 1838. This is a small, globose, free-swimming colony, formed of a variable number (from 10 to 50) of ovoid or ellipsoid, ..."

2. The Microscopy of Drinking Water by George Chandler Whipple, John Wymond Miller Bunker (1914)
"Free-swimming animalcules, united into spherical clusters as in synura, without lorica, ... It resembles synura. It is not common. (PI. XII, Fig. n. ..."

3. The Microscopy of Drinking-water by George Chandler Whipple (1899)
"There is good reason to believe that the cucumber odor observed in 1881 was due to synura. One need not dispute the observation that the sponge that ..."

4. The Transactions of the Microscopical Society of London by Microscopical Society of London (1868)
"The organism now shown, believed to be nothing else than synura ... distinct structures as the synura and all these could be evolved the one from the other. ..."

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