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单词 cilia
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cilian.

Brit. /ˈsɪlɪə/, U.S. /ˈsɪljə/, /ˈsɪliə/
Forms: Singular cilium (not common).
Etymology: < Latin cilia, plural of cilium , an eyelid, eyelid-edge, eyelash. (The plural has been made ciliæ and cilias by those who mistook cilia for a singular) Compare cil n.
With plural agreement.
1.
a. The eyelids, esp. the outer edges of the eyelids.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [noun] > eyelid
breec890
eye-breeOE
eyelida1200
browc1200
lid (of the eye)c1220
palpebre?a1425
window1593
brow-lid1594
fin1604
under-lid1611
palpebra1634
cilia1715
eye-peeper1786
Madonna lid1863
eyewinker1923
1715 J. Kersey Dict. Anglo-Britannicum (ed. 2) Cilium, the Eye-lid, properly the utmost Edge of the Eye-lid, out of which the Hairs grow.
So 1721–1800 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict.
1783 J. C. Smyth in Med. Communications 1 193 The cilia, or edges of the eye-lids, look red.
b. The eyelashes.
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the world > life > the body > hair > eyelash > [noun]
breec1450
eye-bree1577
winker1734
eyelash1755
lash1796
eyewinker1808
cilia1838
1838 Penny Cycl. X. 141/2 The lashes or cilia..grow in several rows at the margins of both lids.
1875 H. Walton Pract. Treat. Dis. Eye (ed. 3) 137 A cilium is always in the centre of it.
2.
a. Delicate hairs resembling eyelashes, esp. such as form a fringe on the margins of leaves, the wings of some insects, etc.
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the world > plants > part of plant > hair or bristle > [noun] > hairs or cilia
cilia1785
the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > villosity or ciliation > [noun] > villus
capillament1681
villus1704
cilia1785
villosity1828
strand1877
microvillus1953
1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxvi. 404 The scales are ovate, with erect, capillary ciliæ [1791: cilias].
1834 H. McMurtrie tr. G. Cuvier Animal Kingdom (abridged ed.) 461 The wings [of diptera] are always distant..Their edge is more or less fringed with cilia.
1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 331 The margin of the theca appears furnished with appendages of very regular form arranged in one or two rows..termed Teeth or Cilia.
b. Ornithology. The barbicels of a feather.
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the world > animals > birds > feather > [noun] > part of
pen1381
quill?a1425
dowlc1535
rib1545
web1575
pilec1600
twill1664
beard1688
pinion1691
vane1713
shaft1748
beardlet1804
medulla1826
barb1835
barbule1835
stem1845
feather-pulp1859
aftershaft1867
barbicel1869
filament1870
vexillum1871
scape1872
rachis1874
harl1877
calamus1878
radius1882
ramus1882
scapus1882
cilia1884
1884 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds (ed. 2) ii. 84 The barbicels..also called cilia, or lashes... These are simply a sort of fringe to the barbules.
1893 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. 1 240 The cilia or barbicels with their hamuli or hooks are outgrowths of the radii.
3. Physiology. Minute hair-like organs or appendages found on the tissues of most animals, and in some vegetable organisms. They are in incessant vibratile movement, and in many of the lower animal forms that live in water they serve as the chief organs of locomotion.
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the world > plants > part of plant > hair or bristle > [noun] > hair-like organs or appendages
cilia1835
cils1868
the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > villosity or ciliation > [noun] > cilia
cilia1835
arbuscle1860
cils1868
dynein arm1965
1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 606/1 The cilia serve as organs of locomotion.
1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 606/1 Cilia..exist in a great many invertebrated and in all vertebrated animals except Fishes.
1872 T. H. Huxley Lessons Elem. Physiol. (ed. 6) vii. 157 In some of the lower animals, cells may be found possessing only a single cilium.
1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 211 Algae, The rotating advancing movement is occasioned by Cilia, fine vibratile threads which are sometimes very numerous but short, and cover the whole surface of the swarm-spore.
1881 St. G. Mivart Cat 26 Thread~like processes or cilia, which are capable of performing repeatedly a whipping-like movement.

Compounds

in combinations as cilia-bearing adj. (in sense 3).
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1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 43/2 The cilia-bearing arches.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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