cilium

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

A short microscopic hairlike organelle projecting from a eukaryotic cell (such as a unicellular organism or one cell of a multicelled organism) which serve either for propulsion by causing currents in the surrounding fluid or as sensors.
One of the fine hairs along an insect's wing.
One of the hairs or similar protrusions along the margin of an organ.
An eyelash.

/ˈsɪl.i.əm/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-cilium.wav

cilium cilia

Borrowed from Latin cilium (“eyelid”).

supercilium flagellum

ciliary ciliate cilio- kinocilium macrocilium monociliate monocilium stereocilium uniciliate

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