ciliate

Adjective

• having a margin or fringe of hairlike projections

• of or relating to the human eyelash

• of or relating to cilia projecting from the surface of a cell

Noun

• a protozoan with a microscopic appendage extending from the surface of the cell

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  ciliated , ciliary , cilial , ciliated protozoan , ciliophoran