Çĭl'i-ȧ, n. pl.
Çĭl'i-ȧ, n. pl. [Lat. cilium, pl. cilia.]
Sense 1. (Anat.) The eyelashes, or hairs growing from the edges of the eyelids. Dunglison.
Sense 2. (Bot.) Long hairs, like eyelashes, upon the margin of a vegetable body. Gray.
Sense 3. (Zoöl.) Slender, short, hair-like appendages, fringing certain organs, and sometimes used as means of motion, as in the Rotifers. Carpenter.