paramecium

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Each is a rectangle about 300 micrometers long and 200 micrometers wide, roughly the size of a paramecium.

From Science Magazine

I would say like a paramecium or an amoeba likely doesn't show shame or embarrassment.

From Salon

The problems that the intelligence of a paramecium faces are very different from your problems or mine.

From Salon

It was rooted in the bodysuit, two curving paramecium shapes cut out at the neck and side, paired with billowing parachute-silk anoraks, or airy cargo pants, sliced open at the side.

From New York Times

Fadi felt like a hairy single-celled paramecium, immobilized under a microscope, squashed between two plates of glass.

From Literature