Cilia is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CILIA in dictionary:

NOUN:
• CILIUM, a short hairlike projection borne by a cell
• The eyelashes.
• Small, generally microscopic, vibrating appendages lining certain organs, as the air passages of the higher animals, and in the lower animals often covering also the whole or a part of the exterior. They are also found on some vegetable organisms. In the Infusoria, and many larval forms, they are locomotive organs.
• Hairlike processes, commonly marginal and forming a fringe like the eyelash.
• Small, vibratory, swimming organs, somewhat resembling true cilia, as those of Ctenophora.
• eye-lashes.
• small, delicate hairs similar to eyelashes like those found on leaves.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• pl. of cilium

Words related to CILIA

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Words that contain CILIA

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How to use CILIA in a sentence

• From the depression, two long and delicate cilia proceed, one shorter than the other, and directed forwards.
• It then becomes quite quiet, the cilia disappear, it assumes a spherical form, and surrounds itself with a distinct, though delicate, membranous coat.
• Each is oval and is provided at one extremity with two long active cilia.
• By subjecting the cilia to the action of iodine, their motion is arrested, they are stained brown, and become very plainly visible.
• They are very small and circular, and the interior is clothed with cells very similar to the cilia cells in higher animal life.
• These filaments, together with the interior of the tubes, are covered with a peculiar kind of cells, upon which are minute cilia, or hairs, in constant motion.
• Cilia of all the wings white, spotted except at the apex of the anterior with black.
• These cilia all lash the water in one direction, and so drive the little body along as if it were propelled by thousands of extremely minute paddles.

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