protist

See also: Protist

English

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protist

Wikipedia

Etymology

From translingual Protista, from Ancient Greek πρώτιστος (prṓtistos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈproʊtɪst/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

protist (plural protists)

1. (microbiology) Any of the eukaryotic, usually unicellular organisms—including protozoans, slime molds and some algae—historically grouped into the kingdom Protista (or Protoctista), now distributed over several clades; any eukaryote that is not a plant, animal or fungus.
   • 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 162:

     Besides the hundreds or thousands of metres of fungal mycelium in a teaspoon of healthy soil, there are more bacteria, protists, insects and arthropods than the number of humans who have ever lived on Earth.

   Synonym: protistan

   1. Any single-celled eukaryote, prokaryote or sponge [to 1959].
   2. Any single-celled eukaryote or prokaryote [1959–1969].
   3. Any single-celled eukaryote [since 1969].

Usage notes

• As cladistics and phylogenetics became increasingly emphasised in modern taxonomy, Protista was revealed to be an artificial grouping of several independent clades, and its use as a formal taxon was gradually abandoned. For more information, see Protist on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• The study of protists is termed protistology.

Derived terms

• antiprotist
• protistic

Related terms

• monoprotist
• protistal
• protistological
• protistologist
• protistology

Translations

eukaryotic unicellular organisms

Armenian: պրոտիստ (protist) Bulgarian: протист m (protist) Chinese: Mandarin: 原生生物 (zh) (yuánshēng shēngwù) Czech: protista Danish: protist c Dutch: protist (nl) m Esperanto: protisto Estonian: protist Finnish: alkueliö (fi), protisti, protoktisti French: protiste (fr) m Galician: protista (gl) Georgian: პროტისტი (ṗroṭisṭi) German: Protist (de) m Hungarian: protiszta Icelandic: frumvera f Ido: protisto (io) Irish: prótaisteach m Italian: protista (it) Japanese: 原生生物 (ja) (gensei seibutsu) Korean: 원생생물(原生生物) (ko) (wonsaengsaengmul) Polish: protista Portuguese: protista (pt) m Romanian: protist (ro) n Russian: проти́ст (ru) m (protíst) Spanish: protista (es) Swedish: protist (sv) Thai: please add this translation if you can Turkish: protist Ukrainian: найпростіш m (najprostiš) Vietnamese: sinh vật đơn bào

Anagrams

• tropist

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin Protista, from Ancient Greek πρώτιστος (prṓtistos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /proːˈtɪst/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: pro‧tist
• Rhymes: -ɪst

Noun

protist m (plural protisten, no diminutive)

1. protist (unicellular organism)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French protiste.

Noun

protist n (plural protiste)

1. protist

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	protist	protistul		protiste	protistele
genitive-dative	protist	protistului		protiste	protistelor
vocative	protistule			protistelor