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Tardigrade   Listen
adjective
Tardigrade  adj.  
1.
Moving or stepping slowly; slow-paced. (R.)
2.
(Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Tardigrada.





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... cit., s. xiv., p. 122 and 403. The rapid multiplication of microscopic organisms is, in the case of some (as, for instance, in wheat-eels, wheel-animals, and water-bears or tardigrade animalcules), accompanied by a remarkable tenacity of life. They have been seen to come to life from a state of apparent death after being dried for twenty-eight days in a vacuum with chloride of line and sulphuric acid, and after being exposed to ...
— COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 • Alexander von Humboldt


Words linked to "Tardigrade" :   arthropod, class Tardigrada


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