"rotifer" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: rotifers [plural]
Etymology: From Latin rota (“wheel”) + -fer (“-bearing”), after Italian rotifero. Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|rota||wheel}} Latin rota (“wheel”), {{der|en|it|rotifero}} Italian rotifero Head templates: {{en-noun}} rotifer (plural rotifers)
  1. Any of many minute aquatic multicellular organisms, of the phylum Rotifera, that have a ring of cilia resembling a wheel. Categories (lifeform): Animals Synonyms: wheel animal, wheel animalcule Derived forms: bdelloid rotifer Related terms: rotiferan Translations (organism of the phylum Rotifera): անվաորդեր (anvaorder) (Armenian), rotatori (Azerbaijani), ротатория (rotatorija) [feminine] (Bulgarian), 輪形動物 (Chinese Mandarin), 轮形动物 (lúnxíng dòngwù) (Chinese Mandarin), rataseläin (Finnish), rotifère [masculine] (French), rattulo [masculine] (Italian), 輪形動物 (rijkeidōbutsu) (alt: りんけいどうぶつ) (Japanese), зымырық (zymyryq) (Kazakh), 윤형동물 (yunhyeongdongmul) (alt: 輪形動物) (Korean), 윤충류 (yunchungnyu) (alt: 輪蟲類) (Korean), چرخانتباران (Persian), wrotek [masculine] (Polish), rotífero [masculine] (Portuguese), коловра́тка (kolovrátka) [feminine] (Russian), โรติเฟอร์ (Thai)

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