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Definition of Ciliate

1. Noun. A protozoan with a microscopic appendage extending from the surface of the cell.

2. Adjective. Of or relating to cilia projecting from the surface of a cell.

3. Adjective. Of or relating to the human eyelash.

4. Adjective. Having a margin or fringe of hairlike projections.

Definition of Ciliate

1. a. Provided with, or surrounded by, cilia; as, a ciliate leaf; endowed with vibratory motion; as, the ciliated epithelium of the windpipe.

Definition of Ciliate

1. Adjective. (biology) Ciliated. ¹

2. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the eyelash. ¹

3. Noun. (zoology) Any of many protozoa, of the class ''Ciliata'', that have many cilia. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ciliate

1. one of a class of ciliated protozoans [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ciliate

ciliary movement ciliary muscle ciliary muscles ciliary neurotrophic factor ciliary part of retina ciliary process ciliary processes ciliary ring ciliary staphyloma ciliary veins

ciliary wreath ciliary zone ciliary zonule ciliastatic ciliata ciliate (current term) ciliated ciliated epithelium ciliated protozoan ciliately

ciliates ciliation ciliations cilice cilices cilicious ciliectomy ciliferous ciliform cilio-

Literary usage of Ciliate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Flora of the Rocky Mountains and Adjacent Plains, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming by Per Axel Rydberg (1917)
"Leaves imbricate, rigid, linear, apiculate, 5-6 mm. long, strongly ascending, straight, with a strong midrib, hispid-ciliate on the margins; calyx glandular ..."

2. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"Petals deep yellow or purple, hairy and ciliate. 13. ... 12 to 15 lines long, bearded above the gland and ciliate with long white hairs : gland lunate, ..."

3. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn; Jepson (1901)
"... banner white the lowermost 6, oblanceolate, 7 to 9 lines long; raceme mostly 1J to or pale blue; wings blue; keel ciliate for its whole length. ..."

4. Manual of Botany for North America: Containing Generic and Specific by Amos Eaton (1836)
"... undulate, sub-ciliate at tlic base, smooth or sub-pilose on both sides: peduncles axillary, ven' short, about 3 flowered: divisions of the calyx linear, ..."

5. Flora Cestrica: An Attempt to Enumerate and Describe the Flowering and by William Darlington (1837)
"... hairy and scabrous, on slightly margined striate ciliate petioles. ... the petioles ciliate with long hairs ; racemes paniculate, terminal. ..."

6. The Flora of British India by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1890)
"... lobes short ciliate, glands very minute stipitate with a minute limb or 0, capsules erect obtusely Keeled pubescent, seeds with 5—ti shallow transverse ..."

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