Example sentences for: cilium

How can you use “cilium” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Pokorny, echoing predecessors, suggested that cilium meant the lower lid and supercilium the upper (553).

  • And cilium , which meant upper eyelid to Pliny the Elder, acquired in later centuries the senses of eyebrow, eyelid, and eyelash.

  • Körting's Lateinisch-Romanisches Wörterbuch (Stechert's 1923 repr.) glossed cilium as eyebrow, as the only meaning (Col. 271, No. 2176).


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