Thesaurus:protozoan
English
Noun
Sense: any eukaryote of the phylum Protozoa
Synonyms
Hyponyms
Hypernyms
Meronyms
Coordinate terms
- metazoan (multicellular and eukaryotic; cohyponymous under hypernym eukaryote < organism)
- prokaryote (unicellular but noneukaryotic; cohyponymous under hypernym organism)
Various
- animal [⇒ thesaurus] (formerly construed as hypernymous)
- animalcule (historical; formerly construed as hypernymous)
Further reading
- “amoeba” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.