suctorianとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Translingual Suctoria +‎ -an.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /sʌkˈtɔːɹɪən/

名詞

suctorian ‎(複数形 suctorians)

1. A protist of the subclass Suctoria in the class Phyllopharyngea; a predatory sessile ciliate.
   • 2011, Terence Allen and Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford 2011, p. 11:

     If the tentacles are touched, the ‘prey’ is instantly paralysed, and the contents of its body are sucked down the tentacle into the body of the suctorian, reducing the prey to a shrivelled husk in a matter of minutes.

上位語

• phyllopharyngean
• ciliophoran
• alveolate
• protist
• eukaryote
• microbe

参考

• Suctoria on Wikipedia.

アナグラム

• curations