Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having two cilia.
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- adjective Having two
cilia
Etymologies
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bi- + ciliate
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Examples
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After a time, they swarm in the laterally biciliate form, encyst again, and germinate.
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The mass soon takes the Ibrm of a biciliate zoospore, and after some preliminary efforts, darts away and swims freely about.
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One might regard this as leading towards the simpler zoo - spore formation of the JPeroriosporecej but for the fact that the zoospores are terminally, and not laterally, biciliate.
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