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Video: Commonly known as wheel animals, rotifers feed by means of a ring of slender projections called cilia, which appear to spin like a propeller as the animal draws in water filled with a meal of dead bacteria, algae and other detritus.
—Quanta Magazine, 19 Nov. 2014
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First Known Use
1788, in the meaning defined above
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“Wheel animal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wheel%20animal. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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