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8 words match “STENTOR”

STENTOR n. 3 definitions
Any species of ciliated Infusoria belonging to the genus Stentor and allied genera, common in fresh water. The stentors have a bell-shaped, or cornucopia-like, body with a circle of cilia around the spiral terminal disk. See Illust. under Heterotricha.
STENTORIAN a.
Of or pertaining to a stentor; extremely loud; powerful; as, a stentorian voice; stentorian lungs.
STENTORIN n.
A blue coloring matter found in some stentors. See Stentor, 2.
STENTORIOUS a.
Stentorian. [R.]
STENTORONIC a.
Stentorian. [Obs.]
STENTOROPHONIC a.
Speaking or sounding very loud; stentorian. [Obs.] Of this stentorophonic horn of Alexander there is a preserved in the Vatican. Derham.
TRUMPET n.
sounds with increased force. -- Trumpet animalcule (Zoöl.), any infusorian belonging to Stentor and allied genera, in which the body is trumpet-shaped. See Stentor. -- Trumpet ash (Bot.), the trumpet creeper. [Eng.] -- Trumpet conch (Zoöl.), a trumpet shell, or triton. -- Trumpet creeper (Bot.), an American climbin…
ZOOCHLORELLA; ZOOECHLORELLA n.
One of the small green granulelike bodies found in the interior of certain stentors, hydras, and other invertebrates.