Usually means: Hair-like structures aiding movement.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word cilia:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. cilia: Merriam-Webster
  2. cilia: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cilia: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cilia: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cilia: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cilia, cilia: Wordnik
  7. cilia: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Cilia: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. cilia: Wiktionary
  10. cilia: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. cilia: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. cilia: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. cilia: Dictionary.com
  14. Cilia (entomology), Cilia: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Cilia: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. cilia: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. Cilia: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. cilia: FreeDictionary.org
  19. cilia: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cilia: Encyclopedia

Medicine (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. cilia: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Cilia: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Cilia: Merck Manuals
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  8. Cilia: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  9. Hair Facts (No longer online)
  10. cilia: Medical dictionary
  11. Cilia: Drug Medical Dictionary
  12. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  2. cilia: Rhododendron Glossary
  3. Cilia: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cilia: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See cilium as well.)

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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