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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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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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
  1. 1
    • : 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.