ciliate in English

adjective
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(of an organism, cell, or surface) bearing cilia.
In the present study we were unable to observe cilia in any presumptive ciliate protozoan.
noun
1
a single-celled animal of a phylum distinguished by the possession of cilia or ciliary structures. The ciliates are a large and diverse group of advanced protozoans.
Most ciliates cannot reproduce indefinitely by asexual fission, and eventually die out if prohibited from conjugating.
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1. 3 synonyms for Ciliary: cilial, ciliate, ciliate

2. Examples of this ending include Bryozoon (Greek bruon, moss), a group of sedentary aquatic invertebrates that comprises the moss animals; protozoon (Greek prōtos, first), a single-celled microscopic animal, such as an amoeba, ciliate, or sporozoan; spermatozoon (Greek sperma, spermat‑, seed), the mature

3. Apex truncate and notched, ciliate, margin entire, Aciliate, the smaller 2 wings oblong to triangular, 4–9 × 1.5–2.6, margin entire, Aciliate; placentae axile, bilamellate, ovuliferous all over; styles 3, deciduous in fruit, 5–6 mm long, irregularly multifid 1 mm from base, branches spreading, spirally twisted.

4. Noun A minute or microscopic animal, nearly or quite invisible to the naked eye, as an infusorian or rotifer; an animalculum: as, the bell- animalcule, a ciliate infusorian of the family Vorticellidæ; wheel- animalcule, a rotifer; bear- animalcule, a minute arachnidan of the order Arctisca

5. Vorticella, genus of the ciliate protozoan order Peritrichida, a bell-shaped or cylindrical organism with a conspicuous ring of cilia (hairlike processes) on the oral end and a contractile unbranched stalk on the Aboral end; cilia usually are not found between the oral and Aboral ends

6. The addition of T. thermophila to a culture containing a low density of p-nitrophenol-degrading Pseudomonas sp. did not affect the acclimation period prior to mineralization of the substrate, but the ciliate increased the acclimation period in the presence of high densities of Enterobacter aerogenes added as an alternative prey species.

7. N Animalcule Any little animal, as a mouse, insect, etc.; n Animalcule A minute or microscopic animal, nearly or quite invisible to the naked eye, as an infusorian or rotifer; an animalculum: as, the bell-Animalcule, a ciliate infusorian of the family Vorticellidæ; wheel-Animalcule, a rotifer; bear-Animalcule, a minute arachnidan of the order Arctisca

8. N animalcule Any little animal, as a mouse, insect, etc.; n animalcule A minute or microscopic animal, nearly or quite invisible to the naked eye, as an infusorian or rotifer; an animalculum: as, the bell-animalcule, a ciliate infusorian of the family Vorticellidæ; wheel-animalcule, a rotifer; bear-animalcule, a minute arachnidan of the order Arctisca