rotifer

English

One of the many kinds of rotifers

Etymology

From Latin rota (“wheel”) + -fer (“-bearing”), after Italian rotifero.

Noun

rotifer (plural rotifers)

1. Any of many minute aquatic multicellular organisms, of the phylum Rotifera, that have a ring of cilia resembling a wheel.

   Synonyms: wheel animal, wheel animalcule

Derived terms

• bdelloid rotifer

Related terms

• rotiferan

Translations

organism of the phylum Rotifera

• Armenian: անվաորդեր (anvaorder)
• Azerbaijani: rotatori
• Bulgarian: ротатория f (rotatorija)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 輪形動物／轮形动物 (lúnxíng dòngwù)

• Finnish: rataseläin
• French: rotifère (fr) m
• Italian: rattulo (it) m
• Japanese: 輪形動物 (りんけいどうぶつ, rijkeidōbutsu)
• Kazakh: зымырық (zymyryq)
• Korean: 윤형동물(輪形動物) (yunhyeongdongmul), 윤충류(輪蟲類) (yunchungnyu)
• Persian: چرخان‌تباران (fa)
• Polish: wrotek m
• Portuguese: rotífero m
• Russian: коловра́тка (ru) f (kolovrátka)
• Thai: โรติเฟอร์

References

• rotifer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Rotifera on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Rotifera on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• Fortier

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French rotifère.

Noun

rotifer n (plural rotifere)

1. rotifer

Declension

Declension of rotifer

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) rotifer	rotiferul	(niște) rotifere	rotiferele
genitive/dative	(unui) rotifer	rotiferului	(unor) rotifere	rotiferelor
vocative	rotiferule		rotiferelor