Rotifer a

(ro-tif'e-rah,) or ROTATOR I A. [FromL. rota, a wheel, and fero, I bear.] (Zool.) A tribe of minute and mainly microscopic animals, in which the organs of locomotion are merely cilia arranged around the head. They are generally placed among the Infusoria, but by some among the Crustaceans, O. Entomostraca. [s. 780]