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View synonyms for ciliate
ciliate
[ sil-ee-it, -eyt ]
noun
- Also called cil·i·oph·o·ran [sil-ee-, of, -er-, uh, n]. any protozoan of the phylum Ciliophora (or in some classification schemes, class Ciliata), as those of the genera Paramecium, Tetrahymena, Stentor, and Vorticella, having cilia on part or all of the surface.
adjective
- Also cil·i·at·ed [] having cilia.
- belonging or pertaining to the phylum Ciliophora.
ciliate
/ ˈsɪlɪɪt; -eɪt /
adjective
- Alsociliated possessing or relating to cilia
a ciliate epithelium
- of or relating to protozoans of the phylum Ciliophora , which have an outer layer of cilia
noun
- a protozoan of the phylum Ciliophora
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Derived Forms
- ˌciliˈation, noun
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Other Words From
- cili·ate·ly adverb
- cili·ation noun
- multi·cili·ate adjective
- multi·cili·ated adjective
- non·cili·ate adjective
- non·cili·ated adjective
- un·cili·ated adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
Mixed in with them are smaller scales, from two to four lines long, and more distinctly ciliate-toothed.
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It has seized with its tentacles, and is in the act of sucking out the juices of six examples of the Ciliate Colpoda parvifrons.
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Perianth of 3–6 mostly retrorsely barbed or ciliate bristles (not elongated), or sometimes wanting.
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Leaves complicate-bilobed, the upper lobe smaller, the lower succubous; margins entire or dentate or ciliate; underleaves none.
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Leaves incubous, complicate-bilobed, each lobe divided and lacerately ciliate; underleaves 4–5-lobed, ciliate.
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