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eciliate

eciliate adjective: not ciliate.

Adjective

eciliate (not comparable)

  1. Not ciliate.
    • […] broad, equitant, of upper long, strongly compressed, mouth not auricled, ligule a very short eciliate membrane; spike up to 6 in. long […]1900, Henry Trimen, A Hand-book to the Flora of Ceylon, Dulau & Company, →OCLC, page 220
    • The character ciliate (with multicellular hairs) versus eciliate upper calyx teeth has been commonly used as a primary taxonomic criterion, since it was proposed by Klokov & Shostenko (1927; 1932: 524 - 525) […]1973, Jaakko Jalas, “Thymus subsect. Pseudomarginati in the Himalayas and adjoining western mountain ranges, and in Caucasia”, in Annales Botanici Fennici, volume 10, number 2, page 104

Origin of eciliate

From e- + ciliate.

Words formed from eciliate

Questions about eciliate

What does eciliate mean?
Eciliate means not ciliate.
What part of speech is eciliate?
Eciliate is an adjective.

Words near eciliate in the dictionary

  1. Echuca
  2. Echuca Village
  3. Echuca West
  4. echujin
  5. echujine
  6. eciliate
  7. eciliated
  8. ecilop
  9. ecipramidil
  10. ECIS
  11. ecitonine

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