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Definition of Ctene
1. Noun. A locomotor organ consisting of a row of strong cilia whose bases are fused.
Definition of Ctene
1. a comb-like swimming organ [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ctene
Literary usage of Ctene
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fritz-Gilbert Waters (1902)
"THE Committee charged with the preparation of the new full and consolidated Index
to the first fifty volumes of the XEW-ENGLAND HISTORICAL AND ctene A ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"The processional litany is distinguished from the e-ctene of the mass by its
invocation of the Virgin, St. John the Baptist, the Apostles, the great high ..."
3. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities by William Smith, Samuel Cheetham (1893)
"Omitting from consideration certain preparatory prayers, the liturgies of St.
Basil and St. Chrysostom begin with a litany, known as f'ctene, ..."
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