инфузория

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инфузо́рия (infuzórijaf inan or f anim (genitive инфузо́рии, nominative plural инфузо́рии, genitive plural инфузо́рий)

  1. infusorium (a minute aquatic creature)
    • 1862, Иван Тургенев [Ivan Turgenev], “Глава 23”, in Отцы и дети; English translation from Richard Hare, transl., Fathers and Sons, 1947:
      Впро́чем, он иногда́ проси́л позволе́ния прису́тствовать при о́пытах База́рова, а раз да́же прибли́зил своё разду́шенное и вы́мытое отли́чным сна́добьем лицо́ к микроско́пу, для того́ что́бы посмотре́ть, как прозра́чная инфузо́рия глота́ла зелёную пыли́нку и хлопотли́во пережёвывала её каки́ми-то о́чень прово́рными кулачка́ми, находи́вшимися у ней в го́рле.
      Vpróčem, on inogdá prosíl pozvolénija prisútstvovatʹ pri ópytax Bazárova, a raz dáže priblízil svojó razdúšennoje i výmytoje otlíčnym snádobʹjem licó k mikroskópu, dlja tovó štóby posmotrétʹ, kak prozráčnaja infuzórija glotála zeljónuju pylínku i xlopotlívo perežóvyvala jejó kakími-to óčenʹ provórnymi kulačkámi, naxodívšimisja u nej v górle.
      However, he sometimes asked permission to be present at Bazarov's experiments and once even placed his perfumed face, washed with the finest soap, over the microscope, in order to see how a transparent protozoon swallowed a green speck and busily chewed it with two very adroit organs which were in its throat.

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