protist

/proh-tist/US // ˈproʊ tɪst //UK // (ˈprəʊtɪst) //

原生动物,原生生物,原生代,原生质

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : any of various one-celled organisms, classified in the kingdom Protista, that are either free-living or aggregated into simple colonies and that have diverse reproductive and nutritional modes, including the protozoans, eukaryotic algae, and slime molds: some classification schemes also include the fungi and the more primitive bacteria and blue-green algae or may distribute the organisms between the kingdoms Plantae and Animalia according to dominant characteristics.

The work includes also the few earlier observations of the “psychic life of the protist.”