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ciliferous

ciliferous adjective: bearing cilia.

Adjective

ciliferous (not comparable)

  1. Bearing cilia.

Origin of ciliferous

From cilia + -i- + -ferous.

Questions about ciliferous

What does ciliferous mean?
Ciliferous means bearing cilia.
What part of speech is ciliferous?
Ciliferous is an adjective.

Words near ciliferous in the dictionary

  1. Cilician Armenia
  2. Cilician Armenian
  3. Cilician Gates
  4. Cilicians
  5. cilicious
  6. ciliferous
  7. ciliform
  8. ciliiform
  9. Cilincing
  10. cilio-
  11. ciliobrevin

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