ciliain a sentence
- The Fremen aimed first for a cycle of poverty grass with peatlike hair cilia to intertwine, mat and fix the dunes by depriving the wind of its big weapon: movable grains.† (source)
- It is a single-celled organism that uses cilia to move through liquid.
- Smoking paralyzes cilia that normally move microbes and debris up and out of the airways.
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Even a single cilium on a bacterium would include several billion protons.†
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editor's notes: Cilia, the plural form of this word is used much more commonly than the singular form. Many Latin words that end in "um" are made plural by changing the "um" to "a"--such as cilium to cilia, bacterium to bacteria, and millennium to millennia. In modern writing, changing the "um" to "ums" is also accepted for many Latin words ending in um, but not for any of those listed above.
- Like the interrogator said, a single cilium on a bacterium can contain several billion protons.† (source)