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Example sentences for: cilium

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And cilium , which meant upper eyelid to Pliny the Elder, acquired in later centuries the senses of eyebrow, eyelid, and eyelash.
Pokorny, echoing predecessors, suggested that cilium meant the lower lid and supercilium the upper (553).
Körting's Lateinisch-Romanisches Wörterbuch (Stechert's 1923 repr.) glossed cilium as eyebrow, as the only meaning (Col. 271, No. 2176).