paramecium

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Each is a rectangle about 300 micrometers long and 200 micrometers wide, roughly the size of a paramecium.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 7, 2024

The book takes us from the clumsy inquisitiveness of an upstart paramecium searching for food several hundred million years ago to the restless seeking that propelled big-brained Homo sapiens into the space age.

From Nature • Jan. 27, 2020

Others are covered in rows or tufts of tiny cilia that they coordinately beat to swim—typically paramecium.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

Strip malls line the town’s highways like paramecium.

From Salon • Mar. 13, 2014

If you wanted to see with your naked eye a paramecium swimming in a drop of water, you would have to enlarge the drop until it was some forty feet across.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson