1. of or relating to cilia projecting from the surface of a cell [syn: ciliary, cilial]
2. of or relating to the human eyelash [syn: ciliary]
3. having a margin or fringe of hairlike projections [syn: ciliated]
“We had left the city far behind us and were now traversing a wide, flat dish of snow where the mutilated stumps of the willows flourished their ciliate heads athwart frozen ditches; mist diminished the horizon, brought down the sky until it seemed no more than a few inches above us.”
--Angela Carter, The Tiger's Bride
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