| 单词 | ciliate |
| 释义 | ciliate (once / 48440 pages) 1adjn 2adj WORD FAMILY ciliate: ciliates USAGE EXAMPLESHe told me, “What we discovered was a new class of ciliates”—a form of protozoa. The New Yorker(Jun 13, 2016) There he photographed protozoans called ciliates that were found for the first time only in 2007. Slate(Oct 31, 2014) “They tasted us and decided we didn’t taste good,” she said, noting there’s only one species of ciliates associated with human disease. Washington Times(Oct 25, 2014) 1 1adj of or relating to cilia projecting from the surface of a cell Syn cilial, ciliary 2adj having a margin or fringe of hairlike projections Syn ciliated rough of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped 3n a protozoan with a microscopic appendage extending from the surface of the cell 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper ciliated protozoan, ciliophoran infusorian any member of the subclass Infusoria paramecia, parameciumany member of the genus Paramecium tetrahymenarelative of the paramecium; often used in genetics research stentorany of several trumpet-shaped ciliate protozoans that are members of the genus Stentor vorticellaany of various protozoa having a transparent goblet-shaped body with a retractile stalk protozoan, protozoon any of diverse minute acellular or unicellular organisms usually nonphotosynthetic adj of or relating to the human eyelash Syn ciliary |
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