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noun - free-living or colonial organisms with diverse nutritional and reproductive modes
Any of the eukaryotic, unicellular organisms of the former kingdom Protista, which includes protozoans, slime molds, and certain algae.
noun - any of a group of unicellular organisms
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| Unicellular organism such as a slime mould |
| Very simple thing for bird to catch worms, ultimately |
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| Dec 26 2017 The Times - Cryptic |
| Sep 17 2012 The Times - Concise |
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| Change 1 letter in "protest" to get this word for a protozoan & others in its kingdom |
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| bDefinitionb of bPROTISTb. : any of a diverse taxonomic group and especially a kingdom (Protista syn. Protoctista) of eukaryotic organisms that are unicellular and sometimes colonial or less often multicellular and that typically include the protozoans, most algae, and often some fungi (as slime molds) |
| free-living or colonial organisms with diverse nutritional and reproductive modes |
| Any of a group of eukaryotic organisms belonging to the kingdom Protista according to some widely used modern taxonomic systems. The protists include a variety of unicellular, coenocytic, colonial, and multicellular organisms, such as the protozoans, slime molds, brown algae, and red algae. |
| A unicellular protoctist in taxonomic systems in which the protoctists are considered to form a kingdom. |
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A protist () is any eukaryotic organism (i.e. one with cells containing a nucleus) that is not an animal, plant or fungus. The protists do not form a natural group, or clade, since they have no common characteristic origin, but, like algae or invertebrates, are often grouped together for convenience. In some systems of biological classification, such as the popular five-kingdom scheme proposed by Robert Whittaker in 1969, the protists make up a kingdom called Protista, composed of "organisms which are unicellular or unicellular-colonial and which form no tissues".Besides their relatively simple levels of organization, protists do not necessarily have much in common. When used, the term protists is now considered to mean a paraphyletic assemblage of similar-appearing but diverse taxa (biological groups) that are not related through an exclusive common ancestor, and have different life cycles, trophic levels, modes of locomotion, and cellular structures. * In the classification system of |