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nounin some recent classifications, coextensive with the Ciliata: minute organisms found in decomposing infusions of organic matter
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- oken German naturalist whose speculations that plants and animals are made up of tiny living `infusoria' led to the cell theory (1779-1851)
- lorenz oken German naturalist whose speculations that plants and animals are made up of tiny living `infusoria' led to the cell theory (1779-1851)
- lorenz okenfuss German naturalist whose speculations that plants and animals are made up of tiny living `infusoria' led to the cell theory (1779-1851)
- infusorian any member of the subclass Infusoria
- okenfuss German naturalist whose speculations that plants and animals are made up of tiny living `infusoria' led to the cell theory (1779-1851)