Usually means: Hair-like structure; cell movement.
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  1. cilium: Merriam-Webster
  2. cilium: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cilium: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cilium: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cilium: Vocabulary.com
  6. cilium: Wordnik
  7. cilium: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cilium: Wiktionary
  9. cilium: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cilium: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cilium: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. cilium: Dictionary.com
  13. Cilium: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Cilium: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. cilium: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. cilium: Rhymezone
  17. Cilium: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. cilium: FreeDictionary.org
  19. cilium: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. cilium: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cilium: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. cilium: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Cilium: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. cilium: Medical dictionary
  6. Cilium: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. cilium: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Tree of Life Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Bryological (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cilium)

noun:  (cytology) A short microscopic hairlike organelle projecting from a eukaryotic cell (such as a unicellular organism or one cell of a multicelled organism) which serve either for propulsion by causing currents in the surrounding fluid or as sensors.
noun:  (entomology) One of the fine hairs along an insect's wing.
noun:  (botany) Hairs or similar protrusions along the margin of an organ.
noun:  (anatomy) An eyelash.

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