/ · 1894 Brewer’s · P · Protozoa
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The lowest class of animal life (Greek, protos zoön). In a figurative sense, a young aspirant for literary honours: “They were young intellectual protozoa.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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