eyelash-like

Updated: September 24, 2025

The gastræa swam by cilia, little eyelash-like processes which urge the animal forward like a myriad of microscopic oars. In our bodies they are sometimes used to keep up a current, e.g., to remove foreign particles from the lungs.

John Mason Tyler - The Whence and the Whither of Man : A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895