An archaic or variant term relating to cilia or eyelashes, or a collection of ciliary structures.
Derived from Latin cilium (eyelash) with the suffix '-ery' meaning a place where something is made or a collection of things.
This word appears rarely in old medical texts and shows how English borrowed the Latin term for 'eyelashes' to describe microscopic structures—Renaissance scientists were essentially saying 'these things look like tiny lashes.'
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