noun
definition
Any of many protozoa, of the phylum Ciliophora, that have many cilia.
adjective
definition
Ciliated.
definition
Of or pertaining to the eyelash.
Examples of ciliate in a Sentence
I discovered the largest ciliate yet apparently a species of Paramecium probably over 300 μm in length.
Bdelloidaceae; foot with two toes and accessory spurs or a simple perforated disk; body telescopic at either end, with an antero-dorsal proboscis ending in a ciliate cup and bearing the proximal antenna; corona usually bilobed, very wheel-like.
Aristocystis may have had ciliate iQre?s food-grooves leading to its mouth, f o,.
For this, a typical ciliate has the cilia arranged in rows.
Whirling through the water like a barrel comes a rotund ciliate which appears to have a long, narrow snout or nose.
The hydroid Dicoryne 'is re- ' markable for the possession of gonophores, which are ciliate and become detached and swim away by means of their cilia.
After a fierce attack on Protestants caused by the mutilation of a statue of the Virgin, in 1528, the king, anxious to con ciliate both the German Protestants and anti-papal England, invited some of the reformers of Meaux to preach in the Louvre.
The " postabdomen," marked off by the two postabdominal setae, usually has teeth or spines, and ends in two denticulate or ciliate claws, or it may be rudimentary, as in Polyphemus.
Leeuwenhoek, to whom we also owe the discovery of Bacteria and ciliate Infusoria.
In most rotifers, on the contrary, the trochus is stronger than the cingulum, often lobed, and with some of its cilia aggregated into vibratile styles homologous with the combplates of Ctenophora (q.v.) and the membranelles of ciliate Infusoria (q.v.).