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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /sʌkˈtɔːɹɪən/

名詞

suctorian (plural suctorians)

1. A protist of the subclass Suctoria in the class Phyllopharyngea; a predatory sessile ciliate.
   • 2011, Terence Allen, Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 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
• ciliophore
• alveolate
• protist
• eukaryote
• microbe

参考

• Suctoria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• curations, soucriant