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cilia
noun(cil-i-um)
a minute short hairlike process often forming part of a fringe; especially : one on a cell that is capable of lashing movement and serves especially in free unicellular organisms to produce locomotion or in higher forms a current of fluid
cilia
noun(cil-i-um)
eyelash

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