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paramecium

noun as in protozoan

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

Because obviously, to be extreme, a paramecium probably doesn't feel embarrassed, however, an orangutan does.

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

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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.

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

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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