ciliferous (siliferus)

[ 1001 cells precisely the same action as in the numberle microscopic animals of which they are highly characteristic, as infusorians, radiolarians, polyzoans, rotifers, and the embryonic or larval stages of very many other invertebrates. Cilia are distinguished by their permanency from the various temporary proce es which resemble them, such as pseudopodia, and by their minutene and activity from the similar but usually larger special proce es known as flagella, vibracula, etc.; but the distinction is not absolute. The peculiar vibratile action of cilia is termed ciliary motion. See cuts under blastocæle, Paramecium, 3. In bot.: (a) In mo es, one of the hair-like proce es within the peristome. (b) One of the microscopic hair-like and Vorticella. IMG:content-0415.jpg:[ocr errors] pendages which are of Cimmerian cimelium (si-mē'li-um), n.; pl. cimelia (-a). [ML., commonly in pl. cimelia (in E. sometimes used as sing.), as a singular in the collective sense.] The monsters of porcelain which compose the cimelia of the days of the Duche of Portland. IMG:content-0416.jpg:[graphic] Art Journal , VII. 210. Cilia.-Portion of peristome of the spine squamo sum, highly magnified. a, a, two outer teeth; 6, 8, In entom., a hair set with others; a fringe, like eyelashes, generally on the leg or margins of the wings of insects. [In all senses most two inner segments; c, cilia; commonly used in the d, plural.] cilleryt n. See cilery. cillo (sil'ō), n. [NL., [NL., prob. (like F. ciller, wink, cil, eyelid)