a. [f. L. type *ciliāt-us, f. cilium: cf. F. cilié.] Furnished with cilia.

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  1.  (esp. Bot.) Fringed or surrounded with hairs or fine bristles.

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1794.  Martyn, Rousseau’s Bot., xiii. 134. The keel of the chaffs is ciliate.

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1852.  Dana, Crust., I. 302. Between these teeth other minute teeth, also somewhat ciliate.

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1861.  Mrs. Lankester, Wild Flowers, 80. The leaves are … ciliate.

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  2.  Furnished with vibratile cilia (see CILIA 3).

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1868.  W. S. O., trans. Ocean World, iv. 93. The superior Infusoria, called ciliate, namely, those provided with vibratile cils.

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1879.  trans. Haeckel’s Evol. Man, I. vii. 174. When these cells are possessed of many processes they are called ciliate cells.

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  Hence Ciliati-, Ciliato-, combining forms, as (in sense 1) ciliatifoliate, ciliato-dentate, -petalous, serrate, etc.

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