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Definition of Ciliata
1. Noun. Class of protozoa having cilia or hairlike appendages on part or all of the surface during some part of the life cycle.
Group relationships: Phylum Protozoa, Protozoa
Member holonyms: Ciliate, Ciliated Protozoan, Ciliophoran, Infusoria, Subclass Infusoria, Genus Paramecium, Genus Tetrahymena, Genus Stentor, Genus Vorticella
Generic synonyms: Class
Definition of Ciliata
1. n. pl. One of the orders of Infusoria, characterized by having cilia. In some species the cilia cover the body generally, in others they form a band around the mouth.
Medical Definition of Ciliata
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Ciliata
Literary usage of Ciliata
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mosquitoes of North and Central America and the West Indies by Leland Ossian Howard, Harrison Gray Dyar, Frederick Knab (1917)
"Psorophora ciliata Robineau-Desvoidy, Mém. Soc. Hist, nat . Paris, iii, 413, 1827.
... Psorophora ciliata Johannsen, Bull. 68, NY State Mus., 411,1903. ..."
2. English Botany; Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential ...by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby (1807)
"ARENARIA ciliata. Fringed Sandwort. ... Arenaria ciliata. Linn. Sp. PI. 608.
//''«//-. in Feron. v. 1. 420. i. 5. /2. A. n. 876. Hull. Hist. v. 1. 386. /. ..."
3. Morphology of Invertebrate Types by Alexander Ivanovitch Petrunkevitch (1916)
"GRANTIA ciliata Fabricius Material. Grantia ciliata is very common on the ...
Descriptive Part Grantia ciliata is a common representative of the Phylum ..."
4. The Microscope and Its Revelations by William Benjamin Carpenter (1883)
"ciliata.—As it is in this tribe of Animalcules that the action of the organs
termed Cilia has the most important connection with the vital functions, ..."
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