rotifer

English

Etymology

From Latin rota (“wheel”) + -fer (“-bearing”), after Italian rotifero.

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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.

   Synonyms: wheel animal, wheel animalcule

Derived terms

• bdelloid rotifer

Related terms

• rotiferan

Translations

organism of the phylum Rotifera

Armenian: անվաորդեր (anvaorder) Azerbaijani: rotatori Bulgarian: ротатория f (rotatorija) Chinese: Mandarin: 輪形動物 / 轮形动物 (lúnxíng dòngwù) Finnish: rataseläin French: rotifère (fr) m Italian: rattulo (it) m Japanese: 輪形動物 (りんけいどうぶつ, rijkeidōbutsu) Kazakh: зымырық (zymyryq) Korean: 윤형동물(輪形動物) (yunhyeongdongmul), 윤충류(輪蟲類) (yunchungnyu) Persian: چرخان‌تباران (fa) Polish: wrotek m Portuguese: rotífero m Russian: коловра́тка (ru) f (kolovrátka) Thai: โรติเฟอร์

References

• rotifer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Rotifera on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Rotifera on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• Fortier

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French rotifère.

Noun

rotifer n (plural rotifere)

1. rotifer

Declension

Declension of rotifer

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	rotifer	rotiferul		rotifere	rotiferele
genitive-dative	rotifer	rotiferului		rotifere	rotiferelor
vocative	rotiferule			rotiferelor