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Tardigrada
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Tar`di`gra´da
n. pl.1.(Zool.) A tribe of edentates comprising the sloths. They are noted for the slowness of their movements when on the ground. See Sloth, 3.
2.(Zool.) An order of minute aquatic arachnids; - called also bear animalcules, sloth animalcules, and water bears.
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Noun1.Tardigrada - in some classifications considered a separate phylum: microscopic arachnid-like invertebrates living in water or damp moss having 4 pairs of legs and instead of a mouth a pair of stylets or needlelike piercing organs connected with the pharynx
class Tardigrada
Arthropoda, phylum Arthropoda - jointed-foot invertebrates: arachnids; crustaceans; insects; millipedes; centipedes
tardigrade - an arthropod of the division Tardigrada
class - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders
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The samples include tardigrades - also known as water bears - seeds and microscopic bacteria.
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The critters, known as tardigrades, survived fatal levels of solar radiation and the airless vacuum of space, which would instantly kill a human.
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Researchers exposed dried-up tardigrades to open space conditions -- vacuum, ultra-violet radiation from the sun and cosmic radiation -- while aboard the FOTON-M3, a European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft launched in September 2007 that orbited 270 kilometers (170 miles) above the Earth.
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