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 ) ( see cilia) + -olum -ole ¹ ) + -ate ¹

Example Sentences

The second glume is lanceolate-acuminate, not awned, 3-nerved, margins hyaline, and ciliolate.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

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

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

The third glume is hyaline, linear-oblong, 2-nerved, ciliolate.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

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

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

Ligule is membranous, short, very finely ciliolate or not.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.