ciliate
/sil-ee-it, -eyt/US // ˈsɪl i ɪt, -ˌeɪt //UK // (ˈsɪlɪɪt, -eɪt) //
纤毛虫,纤毛,纤毛虫类,纤毛虫病
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n.名词 noun
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- : Also called cil·i·oph·o·ran [sil-ee-of-er-uhn]. /ˌsɪl iˈɒf ər ən/. any protozoan of the phylum Ciliophora, as those of the genera Paramecium, Tetrahymena, Stentor, and Vorticella, having cilia on part or all of the surface.
adj.形容词 adjective
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- : Also cil·i·at·ed [sil-ee-ey-tid]. /ˈsɪl iˌeɪ tɪd/. having cilia.
- : belonging or pertaining to the phylum Ciliophora.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Mixed in with them are smaller scales, from two to four lines long, and more distinctly ciliate-toothed.
It has seized with its tentacles, and is in the act of sucking out the juices of six examples of the Ciliate Colpoda parvifrons.
Perianth of 3–6 mostly retrorsely barbed or ciliate bristles (not elongated), or sometimes wanting.
Leaves complicate-bilobed, the upper lobe smaller, the lower succubous; margins entire or dentate or ciliate; underleaves none.
Leaves incubous, complicate-bilobed, each lobe divided and lacerately ciliate; underleaves 4–5-lobed, ciliate.
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