rotifer

English

One of the many kinds of rotifers

Etymology

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

Noun

rotifer (plural rotifers)

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

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
Rotifera on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

Fortier

Romanian

Etymology

From French rotifère.

Noun

rotifer n (plural rotifere)

rotifer

Declension

Declension of rotifer

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) rotifer	rotiferul	(niște) rotifere	rotiferele
genitive/dative	(unui) rotifer	rotiferului	(unor) rotifere	rotiferelor
vocative	rotiferule		rotiferelor

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