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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

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order of Ciliate

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INFUSORIA

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

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

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food actively, and

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BODY

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CILIA (plural of Lat. cilium, eyelash)

cilia forming a

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general or partial investment (rarely represented by a

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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

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