ADJECTIVE
- having a margin or fringe of hairlike projections
- of or relating to cilia projecting from the surface of a cell
- of or relating to the human eyelash
NOUN
- a protozoan with a microscopic appendage extending from the surface of the cell
How To Use ciliate In A Sentence
- The _first glume_ is chartaceous, obovate-oblong, obtuse, many-nerved (thirteen or more), thinly ciliate with long hairs and with A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
- He sat to the last moment doggedly struggling to keep cool and to mount the ciliated funnel of an earthworm’s nephridium. Love and Mr Lewisham
- The _first glume_ is cuneately obovate or obcordate, yellowish with red brown tips or dark brown with yellow tips, chartaceous below, membranous, hyaline and ciliate at the truncate, emarginate or retuse apex, 7 - to 9-nerved, the nerves abruptly ceasing towards the apex. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
- Some species possess ciliated pits in front of their cerebral ganglion that are used in phototaxis (movement towards light). Platyhelminthes
- To conciliate the soldiers, he raised their pay, creating financial problems.
- The anteriorly situated, eversible ciliated pits (frontal organs) resemble nuchal organs of polychaete annelids.
- The flowering glume is awned, strongly 5-nerved, nerves scabrid and ciliate, the lateral nerves being marginal. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
- The names themselves - diatoms, rotifers, ciliates, desmids - are both delicately Latinate or Greek-derived and appealingly concise.
- “He stood up all the time against Clay,” wrote Donelson, “and yet conciliated the good feeling of both sections of the union.” A Country of Vast Designs
- The normal microbiota in this anoxic environment are composed of bacteria, ciliate and flagellate protozoa, and anaerobic chytridiomycete fungi.