What is "ciliated"

Usage examples of "ciliated".

With a last hasty sweep of food fragments, the assistant pressed a tentacle tip against a ciliated touch bar.

In particular, the Nar had the faculty of perceiving whole orders of mathematical operations directly, by totting up in computer fashion millions of digits at blinding speed on their ciliated undersurfaces.

After a while a little color came back to the ciliated lining, and Bram felt the tentacles stiffen a little.

Maybe those ciliated protozoa that had a variant genetic code were descended from some cilia who had been in symbiosis with other cells in the past, developing genetic-code variations for the same safety-net reasons mitochondria had but, unlike the cilia we still retained, had subsequently broken off the symbiosis and returned to stand-alone life.

The vee slash of its mouth, half-obscured by the ciliated trunk with an obscene hole at the end, opened and closed in terrible silence.

Thin, ciliated appendages wrapped around Jonnqa's mouth, neck, chest, waist.

Antryg and Daurannon swung around in time to see something huge and soft and dreadful come bursting out of the right-hand doorway into the upshaft, something that sprang with the horrible swiftness of a leaping spider but whose soft, billowing body spread like a jellyfish to reveal a ciliated mass of wriggling, saw-toothed tongues.

We overflew a new terrain, a great prairie of huge tubeworms, their ciliated mouths making incessant, lascivious osculations.