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ciliate

[sil-ee-it, -eyt] / ˈsɪl i ɪt, -ˌeɪt /


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Earlier work led by Gunawardena found that a single-cell ciliate showed avoidance behavior, not unlike the actions observed in animals that encounter unpleasant stimuli.

From Science Daily Nov. 19, 2024

The probable culprit is a disease-causing ciliate parasite that brings with it a fast death - perhaps the same one that has wreaked havoc on sea urchin populations in the Caribbean.

From Reuters May 24, 2023

One ciliate can consume up to 1 million virus particles a day, he and his colleagues wrote in PNAS.

From Science Magazine Jan. 11, 2023

For now, here’s a cute scuticociliate, a scuttle-y little ciliate that can jump fairly impressive distances.

From Scientific American Oct. 17, 2013

Culms often creeping at base; leaves ciliate at base; spikes 4–5; lower glume awned and the flowering one pointed.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray




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