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ciliate

ADJECTIVE
  1. having a margin or fringe of hairlike projections
  2. of or relating to cilia projecting from the surface of a cell
  3. of or relating to the human eyelash
NOUN
  1. 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.
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