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filasterea

filasterea noun: filastereans.

Noun

filasterea pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) filastereans
    • Choanoflagellates and filasterea are considered the closest unicellular organisms to metazoan animals.2015 August 7, “The Evolution of the Secreted Regulatory Protein Progranulin”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of filasterea

From the genus name, translingual Filasterea.

Questions about filasterea

What does filasterea mean?
Filasterea means filastereans.
What part of speech is filasterea?
Filasterea is a noun.

Words near filasterea in the dictionary

  1. filasporean
  2. filasporeans
  3. filasse
  4. filastatin
  5. Filasteen
  6. filasterea
  7. filasterean
  8. filastereans
  9. filasterian
  10. filasterians
  11. Filastin

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