a. Zool. [ad. mod.L. ciliobrachiāt-us, f. cilium + brachi-um an arm: see -ATE2.] Having the arms or tentacles furnished with vibratile cilia. The L. neuter pl. Ciliobrachia·ta is the name of a class of polypes so distinguished.

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1839–47.  Todd, Cycl. Anat., III. 174/1. A small cilio-brachiate polypus.

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1846.  Patterson, Zool., 28. Round the mouth is a circle of retractile tentacula covered with cilia, from which circumstance the order has been termed ‘ciliobrachiata.’

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