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Words related to cilia

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  • ciliolate

    covered with minute hairs, as some plants

  • cilium

    any of the short thread-like projections on the surface of a cell, organism, etc, whose rhythmic beating causes movement of the organism or of the surrounding fluid

  • cnidocil

    a hairlike sensory process projecting from the surface of a cnidoblast, believed to trigger the discharge of the nematocyst.

  • comb jelly

    ctenophore

  • flame cell

    one of the hollow cells terminating the branches of the excretory tubules of certain invertebrates, having a tuft of continuously moving cilia.

  • gastrotrich

    any of the microscopic, multicellular animals of the class or phylum Gastrotricha, of fresh or salt waters, characterized by bands of cilia on the ventral surface of the bottle-shaped or ribbony body and by a protrusible feeding apparatus at the mouth.
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