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ctenes

ctenes is the plural of ctene.

Meaning of ctene

Noun

ctene (plural ctenes)

  1. A band of fused cilia on the bodies of ctenophores, used for locomotion.

Questions about ctenes

What is ctenes the plural of?
Ctenes is the plural of ctene.

Words near ctenes in the dictionary

  1. ctenacanthoid
  2. ctenacanths
  3. ctenanthe
  4. ctenanthes
  5. ctene
  6. ctenes
  7. ctenid
  8. ctenidia
  9. ctenidial
  10. ctenidium
  11. ctenids

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ctenes (page history and authors); ctene (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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