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colpoda
[ kol-poh-duh ]
noun
- any ciliated protozoan of the genus Colpoda, common in fresh water.
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These may be, however, only individual variations of a widely spread species, and I believe it is perfectly safe to describe this as Colpidium colpoda.
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Obviously, although the Colpoda is not a monad, it differs from one only in subordinate details.
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And if this were not sufficient evidence of the animality of Colpoda, there comes the fact that it is even more similar to another well-known animalcule, Paramoecium, than it is to a monad.
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The colpoda—undoubted infusoria—behave in an exactly similar manner.
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