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Cilia
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
(plural of Lat. cilium, eyelash), in biology, the threadlike processes by the vibration of which many lowly organisms, or the male reproductive cells of higher organisms, move through water.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Cilia'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/c/cilia.html. 1910.