How to Use rotifer in a Sentence

rotifer

noun
  • That’s just warm enough that the ice worms and rotifers don’t freeze.
    — Joel Sartore, National Geographic, 21 Jan. 2017
  • The creatures were a type of rotifer, some of the toughest animals on the planet.
    — Matthew Twombly, National Geographic, 8 Dec. 2021
  • The hardy rotifer can live through all manner of conditions, but this is a historic feat even for this tiny creature.
    — Wired, 27 June 2021
  • Once eaten, the fungal spores produce cells that threaten to devour the rotifer from the inside out within just 2 weeks.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 29 Jan. 2010
  • Radiocarbon dating revealed the rotifer to be twenty-four thousand years old.
    — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
  • And in one sample collected in 2015, the researchers found this one little rotifer.
    — Karen Hopkin, Scientific American, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Another world would emerge as protozoa and rotifers wiggled into focus.
    — The Economist, 22 Feb. 2020
  • The Notojima strain is the largest L rotifer used by Japanese fish farmers.
    — The Economist, 23 Jan. 2021
  • Shain says samples of the Icelandic rotifers were frozen at -80 degrees Fahrenheit for weeks and recovered just fine.
    — Joel Sartore, National Geographic, 21 Jan. 2017
  • Researchers confirmed the rotifer’s advanced age by radiocarbon dating the surrounding soil.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 June 2021
  • Genomic evidence for ameiotic evolution in the bdelloid rotifer Adineta vaga.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2013

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