ciliolate

American  

[sil-ee-uh-lit, -leyt] / ˈsɪl i ə lɪt, -ˌleɪt /

adjective

1. having cilia.

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ciliolate British  

/ ˈsɪlɪəlɪt, -ˌleɪt /

adjective

1. covered with minute hairs, as some plants

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Etymology

Origin of ciliolate

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

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 concave, pale yellow, shining and cartilaginous to about 2/3 its length from the base, and the upper third is membranous, dimidiately ovate; at the back in the cartilaginous portion, there are three to six deep convex smooth ridges running across the glume; the membranous tip is thin and with anastomosing green veins; the margins of this glume are thick, narrowly incurved, ciliolate, and with a narrow wing on the outer margin.

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