Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—P

Protozo'a

The lowest class of animal life (Greek, protos zoon). In a figurative sense, a young aspirant for literary honours: “They were young intellectual protozoa.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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