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Noun: protist  prow-tist
  1. Free-living or colonial organisms with diverse nutritional and reproductive modes
    - protistan

Derived forms: protists

Type of: microorganism, micro-organism

Part of: division Protista, Protista

Encyclopedia: Protist

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