rotifer

Other forms: rotifers

Definitions of rotifer
  1. noun
    minute aquatic multicellular organisms having a ciliated wheel-like organ for feeding and locomotion; constituents of freshwater plankton
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    type of:
    invertebrate
    any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification
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