rotifer (redirected from rotiferal)

ro·ti·fer  (rt-fr)

n.

Any of various minute multicellular aquatic organisms of the phylum Rotifera, having at the anterior end a wheellike ring of cilia.

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[From New Latin Rotifera, phylum name : Latin rota, wheel; see rota + Latin -fer, -fer.]

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ro·tifer·al (-tfr-l), ro·tifer·ous (-r-s) adj.

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rotifer  (rt-fr)

Any of various tiny, multicellular aquatic animals of the phylum Rotifera, having a wheel-like ring of cilia at their front ends. The cilia trap small organisms for food. Rotifers are grouped by some scientists together with nematodes and some other invertebrates as aschelminths.

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Noun

1.

rotifer - minute aquatic multicellular organisms having a ciliated wheel-like organ for feeding and locomotion; constituents of freshwater plankton invertebrate - any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification phylum Rotifera, Rotifera - a phylum including: rotifers