ciliolate

[ sil-ee-uh-lit, -leyt ]

adjective

1. having cilia.

ciliolate

/ ˈsɪlɪəlɪt; -ˌleɪt /

adjective

1. covered with minute hairs, as some plants

Word History and Origins

Origin of ciliolate¹

1865–70; < New Latin ciliol ( um ) (equivalent to cili ( um ) ( cilia ) + -olum -ole ¹ ) + -ate ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of ciliolate¹

C19: from New Latin ciliolum, diminutive of cilium

Example Sentences

Without runners, usually pale; leaves small, obliquely round-ovate, acutely 2-lobed nearly to the middle; cells quadrate-hexagonal, opaque; diœcious, rarely monœcious; involucral leaves round-quadrate, with slender acuminate lobes; perianth large, widest above the middle, unequally ciliolate; capsule large, long-exserted; antheridial spike long.

From Project Gutenberg

Involucral leaves 2 or 4, like the cauline; perianth pyriform, becoming cylindric, incurved, abruptly rounded at the summit, the minute orifice prominently ciliolate.

From Project Gutenberg

The second glume is ovate oblong, short, awned and 5-nerved; sometimes with partial nerves at the apex between the central and the lateral nerves, and then 5- to 7- or 5- to 9-nerved, hispidly hairy on the nerves, margins ciliolate.

From Project Gutenberg

The first glume is slightly hairy, oblong-lanceolate, acute or obtuse, ciliate at the margins, 7- to 9-, or 13-nerved, generally without pits, but occasionally with one, two or three pits; the keels are ciliolate throughout the length.

From Project Gutenberg

The third glume is broadly oblong, hyaline, nerveless or rarely with two obscure veins ciliolate at the margins and acute or acuminate.

From Project Gutenberg