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Tiny Hairs That Help Paramecia Move Crossword Clue

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noun

• Hairs or similar protrusions along the margin of a plant organ.

• A hairlike organelle projecting from a eukaryotic cell (such as a unicellular organism or one cell of a multicelled organism). These structures serve either for locomotion by moving or as sensors.

• One of the fine hairs along an insect's wing.

33%6 Structure used for movement in paramecia
noun

• a hairlike projection from the surface of a cell; provides locomotion in free-swimming unicellular organisms

• any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids

33%9Paramecia and vorticellae, for example
noun

• in some recent classifications, coextensive with the Ciliata: minute organisms found in decomposing infusions of organic matter

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