ciliate sentence examples

• Bell animalcules are tiny unicellular organisms that belong to a group called the ciliates.
• Slightly larger flagellates and small ciliates prompt the spines to bend and curl so as to entangle the prey more thoroughly.
• Other ciliates have thick round bundles of cilia called cirri which act like legs and enable the organism to actually walk over a surface.
• I discovered the largest ciliate yet apparently a species of paramecium probably over 300 μm in length.
• An ameba, however, does not feed entirely on plants it is also carnivorous feeding on tiny ciliates.
• For this, a typical ciliate has the cilia arranged in rows.
• Most ciliates are quite small, e.g. paramecium, a typical ciliate, is about 0.3 mm long.

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