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n. - Protozoa with amoeba-like bodies and filamentous pseudopods.

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  • The stone type quarried is unique to the Sarikaya quarry, as it can be microscopically classified as radiolarian mudstone.
  • OTOH, how can you resist a guy who uses the word radiolarian in his lyrics?)
  • Bird's lyrics often feature archaic language - words such as radiolarian, plecostomus, dermestids, coprophagia - which he chooses mainly for their sound, but not at the...
  • On the table was a glass model that Elizabeth assumed represented some intricate protist organism such as a marine radiolarian.
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