flame cell

flame cell

noun Zoology.
one of the hollow cells terminating the branches of the excretory tubules of certain invertebrates, having a tuft of continuously moving cilia.

Origin:
1885–90
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Flame cell is always a great word to know.
So is aschelminthes. Does it mean:
major grouping of small-to-microscopic pseudocoelomate organisms
warm-blooded vertebrate with feathers, wings, scaly legs and beak which bear young in shelled eggs
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flame cell
 
n
an organ of excretion in flatworms: a hollow cup-shaped cell containing a bunch of cilia, whose movement draws in waste products and wafts them to the outside through a connecting tubule

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