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metamonad

noun

Etymology

From meta- + monad.

  1. derived from *men-✻
  2. derived from μονάς
  3. derived from monas — “unit”
  4. prefixed as metamonad — “meta + monad”

Definitions

  1. Any of a large group of flagellate amitochondriate protozoa, including the retortamonads…

    Any of a large group of flagellate amitochondriate protozoa, including the retortamonads and diplomonads and possibly also the parabasalids and oxymonads.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for metamonad. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA