Pseudociliate
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Pseudociliate is made of two roots,
One Greek
and one is Latin
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Pseudos (ψευδής) in Greek means false, cilium in Latin means eyelash.
It refers to a type of cells which are covered by small coordinated flagella (cilia), but unrelated to the Chromalveolate
group called the Ciliata.
One Greek
Greek language
Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...
and one is Latin
Latin
Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...
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Pseudos (ψευδής) in Greek means false, cilium in Latin means eyelash.
It refers to a type of cells which are covered by small coordinated flagella (cilia), but unrelated to the Chromalveolate
Chromalveolate
Chromalveolata is a eukaryote supergroup first proposed by Thomas Cavalier-Smith as a refinement of his kingdom Chromista, which was first put forward in 1981. Chromalveolata was proposed to represent the result of a single secondary endosymbiosis between a line descending from a bikont and a red...
group called the Ciliata.