ciliatedadj.
/ˈsɪlɪeɪtɪd/ 1. = ciliate adj. 1.
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ciliated1753
ciliate1760
villous1764
mastigopod1890
pelurious1922
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Leaf Ciliated Leaf, one surrounded all the way with parallel hairs, or filaments, so as to give some resemblance of the hairiness of the eye-lids.
1777 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, quarto) IV. v. 4 Depurator..Crab..hind legs have the two last joints ovated and ciliated.
1783 Lightfoot Motacilla in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 75 10 The tip of the tongue cloven and ciliated.
1845 J. Lindley School Bot. (1858) i. 19 If hairs occupy only the edge..it is said to be ciliated.
2. = ciliate adj. 2.
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ciliary1835
ciliated1835
ciliate1842
1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals I. vi. 196 They sail gaily on, by means of their ciliated tails.
1876 M. Foster Text Bk. Physiol. i. iii. 114 A muscular automatism like that of a ciliated cell.
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