a. [f. as prec. + -ED.]
1. = CILIATE 1.
1753. Chambers, Cycl. Supp., s.v. Leaf, Ciliated Leaf, one surrounded all the way with parallel hairs, or filaments, so as to give some resemblance of the hairiness of the eye-lids.
1766. Pennant, Zool. (1814), IV. 6 (Jod.).
1783. Lightfoot, Motacilla, in Phil. Trans., LXXV. 10. The tip of the tongue cloven and ciliated.
1845. Lindley, Sch. Bot., i. (1858), 19. If hairs occupy only the edge it is said to be ciliated.
2. = CILIATE 2.
1835. Kirby, Hab. & Inst. Anim., I. vi. 196. They sail gaily on, by means of their ciliated tails.
1876. Foster, Phys., I. iii. 114. A muscular automatism like that of a ciliated cell.