Definition of cilia

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Cilia (n. pl.) Small, generally microscopic, vibrating appendages lining certain organs, as the air passages of the higher animals, and in the lower animals often covering also the whole or a part of the exterior. They are also found on some vegetable organisms. In the Infusoria, and many larval forms, they are locomotive organs..

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Trochosphere :: Trochosphere (n.) A young larval form of many annelids, mollusks, and bryozoans, in which a circle of cilia is developed around the anterior end..
Conciliary :: Conciliary (a.) Of or pertaining to, or issued by, a council..
Peace :: Peace (v.) Reconciliation; agreement after variance; harmony; concord.
Trichoscolices :: Trichoscolices (n. pl.) An extensive group of wormlike animals characterized by being more or less covered with cilia.
Caecilian :: Caecilian (n.) A limbless amphibian belonging to the order Caeciliae or Ophimorpha. See Ophiomorpha.
Conciliable :: Conciliable (a.) Capable of being conciliated or reconciled.
Telotrocha :: Telotrocha (n.) An annelid larva having telotrochal bands of cilia.
Scampavia :: Scampavia (n.) A long, low war galley used by the Neapolitans and Sicilians in the early part of the nineteenth century..
Atonement :: Atonement (n.) Reconciliation; restoration of friendly relations; agreement; concord.
Lindia :: Lindia (n.) A peculiar genus of rotifers, remarkable for the absence of ciliated disks. By some zoologists it is thought to be like the ancestral form of the Arthropoda..
Veliger :: Veliger (n.) Any larval gastropod or bivalve mollusk in the state when it is furnished with one or two ciliated membranes for swimming.
Irreconciliation :: Irreconciliation (n.) Want of reconciliation; disagreement.
Nudibrachiate :: Nudibrachiate (a.) Having tentacles without vibratile cilia.
Conciliar :: Conciliar (a.) Alt. of Conciliar.
Propitiate :: Propitiate (v. t.) To appease to render favorable; to make propitious; to conciliate.
Conciliate :: Conciliate (v. t.) To win ower; to gain from a state of hostility; to gain the good will or favor of; to make friendly; to mollify; to propitiate; to appease.
Conciliable :: Conciliable (n.) A small or private assembly, especially of an ecclesiastical nature..
Domiciliated :: Domiciliated (imp. & p. p.) of Domiciliat.
Gastrotricha :: Gastrotricha (n. pl.) A group of small wormlike animals, having cilia on the ventral side. The group is regarded as an ancestral or synthetic one, related to rotifers and annelids..
Pacificatory :: Pacificatory (a.) Tending to make peace; conciliatory.
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