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GYMNOSTOMACEAE

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 764 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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GYMNOSTOMACEAE , an See also:

order of Ciliate See also:

INFUSORIA

Infusoria (q.v.), characterized by a closed mouth, which only opens to See also:

SWALLOW (A. S. swalewe, Icel. svala, Du. zwaluw, Ger. Schwalbe)

swallow See also:

food actively, and See also:

BODY

body See also:

CILIA (plural of Lat. cilium, eyelash)

cilia forming a See also:

general or partial investment (rarely represented by a See also:

GIRDLE (O. Eng. gyrdel, from gyrdan, to gird; cf. Ger. Gurtel, Dutch gordel, from giirten and gorden; "gird" and its doublet " girth " together with the other Teutonic cognates have been referred by some to the root ghar—to seize, enclose, seen in Gr. )(s

girdle of membranellae), but not differentiated in different regions. With the Aspirotrochaceae (q.v.) it formed the Holotricha of See also:

Stein.

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