Definition of "ciliate" []

• Ciliated. (adjective)
• Any of various protozoans of the class Ciliata, characterized by numerous cilia. (noun)

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• "When studying the chromosomes of Tetrahymena, a unicellular ciliate organism, she identified a DNA sequence that was repeated several times at the ends of the chromosomes."
• "A beautiful example of this paradigm is a single cell organism called ciliate – the gene assembly process in ciliates has turned out to be a very elegant computational process which even uses one of the basic data structures of computer science: the linked lists!"
• "The ciliate herbivores are then fed upon by larger organisms such as copepods (small crustaceans)."