Stentor

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of several trumpet-shaped, ciliate protozoans of the genus Stentor, living in dark freshwater pools and feeding chiefly on smaller microorganisms.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. a person with a powerful or stentorian voice
  • n. A howler monkey.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A herald, in the Iliad, who had a very loud voice; hence, any person having a powerful voice.
  • n. Any species of ciliated Infusoria belonging to the genus Stentor and allied genera, common in fresh water. The stentors have a bell-shaped, or cornucopia-like, body with a circle of cilia around the spiral terminal disk. See Illust. under Heterotricha.
  • n. A howling monkey, or howler.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A person having a very powerful voice.
  • n. In mammalogy: The ursine howler, Mycetes ursinus, a platyrrhine monkey of South America; an alouate; any species of Mycetes. See cut under howler.
  • n. [capitalized] The genus of howlers: same as Mycetes.
  • n. In Protozoa: A trumpet-animalcule, or so-called funnel-like polyp.
  • n. [capitalized] The typical genus of Stentoridæ, of elongate, trumpetlike, or infundibuliform figure, with rounded peristome.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. any of several trumpet-shaped ciliate protozoans that are members of the genus Stentor
  • n. a speaker with an unusually loud voice
  • n. the mythical Greek warrior with an unusually loud voice who died after losing a shouting contest with Hermes
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