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Irreconciliation :: Irreconciliation (n.) Want of reconciliation; disagreement.

Cilia :: Cilia (n. pl.) Small, vibratory, swimming organs, somewhat resembling true cilia, as those of Ctenophora..

Domiciliate :: Domiciliate (v. t.) To establish in a permanent residence; to domicile.

Irenical :: Irenical (a.) Fitted or designed to promote peace; pacific; conciliatory; peaceful.

Supercilious :: Superciliary (a.) Having a distinct streak of color above the eyes; as, the superciliary woodpecker..

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..

Ciliate :: Ciliate (a.) Alt. of Ciliate.

Hypotricha :: Hypotricha (n. pl.) A division of ciliated Infusoria in which the cilia cover only the under side of the body.

Volvox :: Volvox (n.) A genus of minute, pale-green, globular, organisms, about one fiftieth of an inch in diameter, found rolling through water, the motion being produced by minute colorless cilia. It has been considered as belonging to the flagellate Infusoria, but is now referred to the vegetable kingdom, and each globule is considered a colony of many individuals. The commonest species is Volvox globator, often called globe animalcule..

Cilium :: Cilium (n.) See Cilia.

Scampavia :: Scampavia (n.) A long, low war galley used by the Neapolitans and Sicilians in the early part of the nineteenth century..

Mesotrochal :: Mesotrochal (a.) Having the middle of the body surrounded by bands of cilia; -- said of the larvae of certain marine annelids.

Superciliary :: Superciliary (a.) Of or pertaining to the eyebrows; supraorbital.

Flagellata :: Flagellata (v. t.) An order of Infusoria, having one or two long, whiplike cilia, at the anterior end. It includes monads. See Infusoria, and Monad..

Caecilian :: Caecilian (n.) A limbless amphibian belonging to the order Caeciliae or Ophimorpha. See Ophiomorpha.

Rotifera :: Rotifera (n.) An order of minute worms which usually have one or two groups of vibrating cilia on the head, which, when in motion, often give an appearance of rapidly revolving wheels. The species are very numerous in fresh waters, and are very diversified in form and habits..

Gentle :: Gentle (superl.) A compellative of respect, consideration, or conciliation; as, gentle reader..

Conciliable :: Conciliable (n.) A small or private assembly, especially of an ecclesiastical nature..

Domiciliation :: Domiciliation (n.) The act of domiciliating; permanent residence; inhabitancy.

Coecilian :: Coecilian (n.) See Caecilian.

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