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cilia
cilia is a 5-letter English word with 4 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The eyelashes. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 4 senses
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- 1plural noun
The eyelashes.
- 2plural noun
Small, generally microscopic, vibrating appendages lining certain organs, as the air passages of the higher animals, and in the lower animals often covering also the whole or a part of the exterior. They are also found on some vegetable organisms. In the Infusoria, and many larval forms, they are locomotive organs.
- 3plural noun
Hairlike processes, commonly marginal and forming a fringe like the eyelash.
- 4plural noun
Small, vibratory, swimming organs, somewhat resembling true cilia, as those of Ctenophora.
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