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

Because obviously, to be extreme, a paramecium probably doesn't feel embarrassed, however, an orangutan does.

From Salon • Sep. 10, 2023

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

When the paramecium bursaria runs out of food, all he needs to do is stay in the sun and his green endosymbionts will keep him supplied as though he were a grain.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas