Ciliate

Word CILIATE
Character 7
Hyphenation cil i ate
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Ciliate"

What do we mean by ciliate?

Ciliated. adjective

Any of various protozoans of the phylum Ciliophora, characterized by numerous cilia. noun

Furnished with cilia; bearing cilia.

In entomology, provided with a row of even, fine, rather stiff, and often curved hairs; fringed: as, a ciliated margin.

Provided with, or surrounded by, cilia; ; endowed with vibratory motion. adjective

Ciliated. adjective

Of or pertaining to the eyelash. adjective

Any of many protozoa, of the class Ciliata, that have many cilia. noun

Having a margin or fringe of hairlike projections adjective

Of or relating to cilia projecting from the surface of a cell adjective

Of or relating to the human eyelash adjective

A protozoan with a microscopic appendage extending from the surface of the cell noun

Any of many protozoa, of the phylum Ciliophora, that have many cilia.

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The word "ciliate" in example sentences

A beautiful example of this paradigm is a single cell organism called ciliate – the gene assembly process in ciliates has turned out to be a very elegant computational process which even uses one of the basic data structures of computer science: the linked lists! ❋ Unknown (2010)

When studying the chromosomes of Tetrahymena, a unicellular ciliate organism, she identified a DNA sequence that was repeated several times at the ends of the chromosomes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As these cells are small (about a micrometer across) the most likely consumers of Synechococcus or Prochlorococcus are flagellate and ciliate protists. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Similarly, among protists, a radiolarian may capture and ingest, more or less indifferently, a bacterium, an autotrophic flagellate, a herbivorous oligotrich ciliate, or another radiolarian (Fig 2E). ❋ Unknown (2009)

The ciliate herbivores are then fed upon by larger organisms such as copepods (small crustaceans). ❋ Unknown (2009)

In higher light conditions these algae convert the carbon dioxide produced by the ciliate into oxygen, ensuring an abundant internal supply of oxygen for the ciliate. ❋ Unknown (2008)

These were almost always due to the dinoflagellate Gonyaulax, and sometimes to the ciliate Mesodinium. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The data are publicly available to test the hypothesis at ciliate. org. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Researchers working with the ciliate Paramecium have discovered that protozoans have a very high mortality rate after conjugation. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Sessile forms (e.g. Suctioria) use haptocysts on feeding tentacles to snag smaller ciliate prey and then suck out the nutritious cytoplasm. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Facts are all well and good, but when a publisher sits down and takes the time to include lush full-color photographs of every ciliate, arthroderma, zygnema, and rotavirus that comes their way, you know that someone really cared. ❋ Fusenumber8 (2006)

In the meantime, the concept that I can dig into a puddle outside my doorstep and pick up a ciliate, and that over in Australia someone can go to a pond, dip a finger in it, and pick up the very same ciliate take this on faith; I know they're very, very small is just, well cool. ❋ Mariness (2004)

Observing ciliate protozoans during their conjugation, he was misled into thinking of them as animals with organ systems analogous to those of multicellular ani - mals. ❋ BENTLEY GLASS (1968)

LEAVES -- compound -- ranging from 3-7 ovate to oblong lanceolate leaflets, usually 5, terminal leaflet as large or larger than the first two laterals, usually 4-8 "long, generally glabrous on both surfaces but with a finely serrate, ciliate margin; total leaf size ranging from 8-15" for mature leaves. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

One of the two trees might be a hybrid since it does not have a ciliate leaflet margin although the buds, bark and leaves are typical of shagbark hickory. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Loud., since shellbark also has a ciliate margin on the leaflets. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The margins of the leaflets were generally finely serrate and disposed to be ciliate -- i.e. with a fringe of hairs along the serrate margins. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The _first glume_ is oblong-lanceolate, acute, 5 - to 7-nerved and ciliate. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

Every jewel-shape in leaf, spore, coral or plume, lying on a greenish crystalline ground, is fringed with a soft radiance of silver fire, and every point is tipped in minute ciliate flames of faint steely purple. ❋ Various (N/A)

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