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

Definitions

1. plural noun. The eyelashes.
2. plural 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.
3. plural noun. Hairlike processes, commonly marginal and forming a fringe like the eyelash.
4. plural noun. Small, vibratory, swimming organs, somewhat resembling true cilia, as those of Ctenophora.

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in cilia:

iliac

Common word forms

ciliation

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