Stentor
noun
- Gr. Myth. a Greek herald in the Trojan War, described in the Iliad as having the voice of fifty men
- a person having a very loud voice
- any of a genus (Stentor) of large, trumpet-shaped, ciliated protozoans, found in stagnant fresh waters
See Stentor in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(stĕnˈtôrˌ)
noun Any of several trumpet-shaped, ciliate protozoans of the genus Stentor, living in dark freshwater pools and feeding chiefly on smaller microorganisms.
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