Heliozoa

Heliozoa, or sun animalcules, are roughly spherical amoeboids with many stiff, microtubule-supported projections called axopods radiating outward from the cell surface. These give them the characteristic sun-like appearance for which they are named, and are variously used for capturing food, sensation, movement, and attachment. They are similar to radiolaria, but they are distinguished from them by lacking central capsules and other complex skeletal elements, although some produce simple scales and spines. They may be found in both fresh water and marine environments.

Originally the heliozoa were treated together as a formal class Heliozoa or Heliozoea, but the different orders show notable differences, and are no longer believed to be related. Instead, heliozoa is regarded as a descriptive term applying to various different lines of protists. These include the following:

Actinodines - e.g. actinophryids, Ciliophrys
Centrohelids
Desmothoracids
Gymnosphaerids
Dimorphids
Sticholonche

Several nucleariids were once considered heliozoa, but they do not have microtubule-supported axopods and so are now considered filose amoeboids instead.

Expression: Heliozoa

Derivations: Heliozoa

Rhyming with "Heliozoa"

Anagrams: Heliozoa

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-h-i-l-o-o-z"
	-2 letters: hoolie.
	-3 letters: azole, haole, hazel, helio, looie, zoeal.
	-4 letters: aloe, elhi, hail, hale, halo, haze, heal, heil, helo, hila, hole, ilea, laze, ohia, olea, oleo, olio, ooze, zeal, zoea.
	-5 letters: ail, ale, azo, hae, hao, hie, hoe, lea, lei, lez, lie, loo, oho, oil, ole, ooh, zoa, zoo.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-h-i-l-o-o-z"
	+1 letter: heliozoan.
	+2 letters: coleorhiza, heliozoans.
	+3 letters: anthologize, coleorhizae.
	+4 letters: anthologized, anthologizer, anthologizes, zootechnical.
	+5 letters: anthologizers, orthogonalize.
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Alternative Orthography: Heliozoa

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 65 6C 69 6F 7A 6F 61

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101111 01111010 01101111 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#101 &#108 &#105 &#111 &#122 &#111 &#97

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0065 006C 0069 006F 007A 006F 0061

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Heliozoa

Definition: Heliozoa

Heliozoa

Noun

Synonym: Heliozoa

Specialty Definition: Heliozoa

Crosswords: Heliozoa

Expression: Heliozoa

Derivations: Heliozoa

Derivations

Rhyming with "Heliozoa"

Anagrams: Heliozoa

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Alternative Orthography: Heliozoa

48 65 6C 69 6F 7A 6F 61

.... . .-.. .. --- --.. --- .-

01001000 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101111 01111010 01101111 01100001

&#72 &#101 &#108 &#105 &#111 &#122 &#111 &#97

0048 0065 006C 0069 006F 007A 006F 0061

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INDEX

Expression using "Heliozoa": order Heliozoa. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "Heliozoa": heliozoan, heliozoans. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).