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[VORTICELLIDE. Any individual of the Vorticellide (q. v.). ( Saville Kent: Infusoria, ii. 671.) vor-ti-çěl-li-dæ, s. pl. [Mod. Lat. vorticell (a); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -idœ.] Zool.: A family of Peritrichous Infusoria, with three sub-families: Vorticellina, Vagi nicol in a, and Ophrydina. Animalcules sedentary or attached, from salt or fresh water, ovate, campanulate, or sub-cylindrical; oral aperture terminal, eccentric, a ociated with a spiral fringe of adoral cilia, the the left imbecilendrite the oral aperture, right limb of which into the trusible, and retractile ciliary disk. They increase by fi ion, by the conjugation of two di imilar zooids, the one (male?) minute and migrant, the other (female?) normal and sedentary, and by the development out of the endoplast of minute free swimming germs. vor-ti-çěl-li-na, s. pl. [Mod. Lat. vorticell ( a ); Lat. neut. pl. adj. suff. -ina.] Zool.: A sub-family of Vorticellide, with eleven genera. Animalcules naked, long, se ile. vor-ti-çēş, s . pl . [VORTEX.] *vor-ti-cial (ci as sh), a. [VORTICAL.] Whirling, vortical (q. v.). "Cyclic and seemingly gyrating or vortical move ments."-Poe: Eureka ( Works , 1864), ii. 205. vor-ti-cose, a . [Lat. vortex (gen it. vorticis ) = a vortex (q. v.).] Whirling, vortical, revolving. *vor-tig-in-ous, adject . [VORTEX.] Having a motion revolving round an axis or center; vortical. "Lifting high his angry tide Vortiginous." Cowper: Homer's Iliad , xxi. võş-ģīte, s. [After the Vosges, where found; suff. -ite ( Min .).] Min.: An altered labradorite found in a porphy. ritic rock. Specific gravity, 2-771; color, white to greenish or bluish; luster, greasy.