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Cilium

//ˈsɪl.i.əm// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    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.

    "It is the deeper parts of such cells which give rise to delicate muscular fibres or networks of fibres, while the superficially placed body of the cell myoblast), the part which produces the above, performs other functions, and usually bears a cilium."

  2. 2
    a hairlike projection from the surface of a cell; provides locomotion in free-swimming unicellular organisms wordnet
  3. 3
    One of the fine hairs along an insect's wing.
  4. 4
    any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids wordnet
  5. 5
    One of the hairs or similar protrusions along the margin of an organ.
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  1. 6
    An eyelash.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cilium (“eyelid”).

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