EGAVE

cilium

About 0.12 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A short microscopic hairlike organelle projecting from a eukaryotic cell (such as a unicellular organism or one cell of a multicelled organism) which serve either for propulsion by causing currents in the surrounding fluid or as sensors.
  2. noun One of the fine hairs along an insect's wing.
  3. noun One of the hairs or similar protrusions along the margin of an organ.
  4. noun An eyelash.

Similar words

eyelash hair vibratile lash ciliature kinocilium ciliation cytol cyte cyatholith

Often followed by

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Word family

cilia ciliums

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