Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Ciliated.
- noun Any of various protozoans of the phylum Ciliophora, characterized by numerous cilia.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Furnished with cilia; bearing cilia.
- In entomology, provided with a row of even, fine, rather stiff, and often curved hairs; fringed: as, a ciliated margin.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Provided with, or surrounded by, cilia; ; endowed with vibratory motion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective biology
Ciliated . - adjective Of or pertaining to the
eyelash . - noun zoology Any of many
protozoa , of the class Ciliata, that have manycilia .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a margin or fringe of hairlike projections
- adjective of or relating to cilia projecting from the surface of a cell
- adjective of or relating to the human eyelash
- noun a protozoan with a microscopic appendage extending from the surface of the cell
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Examples
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When studying the chromosomes of Tetrahymena, a unicellular ciliate organism, she identified a DNA sequence that was repeated several times at the ends of the chromosomes.
The 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Press Release 2009
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A beautiful example of this paradigm is a single cell organism called ciliate – the gene assembly process in ciliates has turned out to be a very elegant computational process which even uses one of the basic data structures of computer science: the linked lists!
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As these cells are small (about a micrometer across) the most likely consumers of Synechococcus or Prochlorococcus are flagellate and ciliate protists.
Marine microbes 2009
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Similarly, among protists, a radiolarian may capture and ingest, more or less indifferently, a bacterium, an autotrophic flagellate, a herbivorous oligotrich ciliate, or another radiolarian (Fig 2E).
Marine microbes 2009
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The ciliate herbivores are then fed upon by larger organisms such as copepods (small crustaceans).
Marine microbes 2009
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In higher light conditions these algae convert the carbon dioxide produced by the ciliate into oxygen, ensuring an abundant internal supply of oxygen for the ciliate.
Protozoa 2008
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These were almost always due to the dinoflagellate Gonyaulax, and sometimes to the ciliate Mesodinium.
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The data are publicly available to test the hypothesis at ciliate. org.
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Researchers working with the ciliate Paramecium have discovered that protozoans have a very high mortality rate after conjugation.
Protozoa 2008
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Sessile forms (e.g. Suctioria) use haptocysts on feeding tentacles to snag smaller ciliate prey and then suck out the nutritious cytoplasm.
Protozoa 2008
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