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ciliate

noun as in protozoan

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Honeybees, for instance, were Apis pubescens, thorace subgriseo, abdomine fusco, pedibus posticus glabis, untrinque margine ciliates.

Mixed in with them are smaller scales, from two to four lines long, and more distinctly ciliate-toothed.

It has seized with its tentacles, and is in the act of sucking out the juices of six examples of the Ciliate Colpoda parvifrons.

Perianth of 3–6 mostly retrorsely barbed or ciliate bristles (not elongated), or sometimes wanting.

Leaves complicate-bilobed, the upper lobe smaller, the lower succubous; margins entire or dentate or ciliate; underleaves none.

Leaves incubous, complicate-bilobed, each lobe divided and lacerately ciliate; underleaves 4–5-lobed, ciliate.

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On this page you'll find 12 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ciliate, such as: ameba, amoeba, cell, euglena, flagellate, and organism.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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