Associations to the word «Rotifera»

Wiktionary

ROTIFERA, proper noun. A taxonomic phylum within the superphylum Protostomia   — the rotifers, traditionally known informally as wheel animalcules because of their partly circular mouthparts fringed with continuously whirling cilia.

Dictionary definition

ROTIFERA, noun. A phylum including: rotifers.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats