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ciliate
 
Adjective ciliate has 3 senses
  1. ciliary, ciliate, cilial - of or relating to cilia projecting from the surface of a cell
  2. ciliary, ciliate - of or relating to the human eyelash
  3. ciliate, ciliated - having a margin or fringe of hairlike projections
    Antonym: smooth (indirect, via rough)
Noun ciliate has 1 sense
  1. ciliate, ciliated protozoan, ciliophoran - a protozoan with a microscopic appendage extending from the surface of the cell
    --1 is a kind of protozoan, protozoon
    --1 is a member of Ciliata, class Ciliata, Ciliophora, class Ciliophora
    --1 has particulars:
     infusorian; paramecium, paramecia; tetrahymena; stentor; vorticella
cilent cilia cilial ciliary ciliary artery ciliary body ciliary veins ciliata ciliate ciliated ciliated protozoan cilicia cilician cililization cilioflagellata ciliophora ciliophoran

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