Zool. [Cf. prec. and -ID1.] An individual of the Vorticellidæ, a family of sedentary infusorians.

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1865.  Intell. Observ., No. 38. 101. The jerk of a Vorticellid.

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1888.  Rolleston & Jackson, Anim. Life, 837. Encysted Vorticellids with many nuclei have been observed.

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  Hence Vorticellidan a. rare.

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1865.  H. James-Clark, in Mem. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., I. 127. This singular appendage of the Vorticellidan group.

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1880.  Saville Kent, Infusoria, I. 68. Members of the Vorticellidan family.

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