ciliate
Example Sentences
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In this ciliate, that familiar ending system has been rearranged.
From Science Daily ● May 7, 2026
The probable culprit is a disease-causing ciliate parasite that brings with it a fast death - perhaps the same one that has wreaked havoc on sea urchin populations in the Caribbean.
From Reuters ● May 24, 2023
One ciliate can consume up to 1 million virus particles a day, he and his colleagues wrote in PNAS.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 11, 2023
For now, here’s a cute scuticociliate, a scuttle-y little ciliate that can jump fairly impressive distances.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 17, 2013
Corolla.—Eighteen lines to two inches long; with tube exceeding the calyx and five ample spreading ciliate lobes; rose-color or paler, with usually a darker stripe down the center of each lobe.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
