Meaning | chiefly marine protozoa having two flagella; a chief constituent of plankton. |
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Member of | Dinoflagellata, order Dinoflagellata, Cilioflagellata, order Cilioflagellata | In some classifications considered a phylum of the kingdom Protista |
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Narrower | noctiluca, Noctiluca miliaris | large bioluminescent marine protozoan |
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peridinian | flagellate with a thick test composed of plates |
Broader | flagellate, flagellate protozoan, flagellated protozoan, mastigophoran, mastigophore | A usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages |
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Spanish | dinoflagellata |
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Catalan | dinoflagel·lat |
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