Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Characterized by vibration.
- adjective Capable of or adapted to vibratory motion.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of vibrating; susceptible of being vibrated; vibratory: as, a vibratile organ; vibratile action or motion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Adapted to, or used in, vibratory motion; having the power of vibrating; vibratory.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Adapted to, or used in,
vibratory motion ; having the power of vibrating.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Algae and Fungi becomes, under many circumstances, partially, or completely, freed from its woody case, and exhibits movements of its whole mass, or is propelled by the contractility of one, or more, hair-like prolongations of its body, which are called vibratile cilia.
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The protoplasm of Algae and Fungi becomes, under many circumstances, partially, or completely, freed from its woody case, and exhibits movements of its whole mass, or is propelled by the contractility of one, or more, hair-like prolongations of its body, which are called vibratile cilia.
Autobiography and Selected Essays Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895 1909
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The protoplasm of Algae and Fungi becomes, under many circumstances, partially, or completely, freed from its woody case, and exhibits movements of its whole mass, or is propelled by the contractility of one, or more, hair-like prolongations of its body, which are called vibratile cilia.
Autobiography and Selected Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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The protoplasm of _Algæ_ and _Fungi_ becomes, under many circumstances, partially, or completely, freed from its woody case, and exhibits movements of its whole mass, or is propelled by the contractility of one, or more, hair-like prolongations of its body, which are called vibratile cilia.
Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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The protoplasm of _Algæ_ and _Fungi_ becomes, under many circumstances, partially, or completely, freed from its woody case, and exhibits movements of its whole mass, or is propelled by the contractility of one, or more, hair-like prolongations of its body, which are called vibratile cilia.
Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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Early in summer these Jelly-Fishes drop their eggs, little transparent pear-shaped bodies, covered with vibratile cilia.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 Various
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Other protozoa differ in possessing constant forms, or in having constant vibratile processes, or shells of some kind, while in still other cases like individuals combine to make colonies which are more or less definite and permanent.
The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope Henry Edward Crampton
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She is vibratile and resonant all over, so she stirs with slighter musical tremblings of the air about her.
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They are all born as little transparent globular bodies, covered with vibratile cilia, swimming about in this condition for a longer or shorter time; then, tapering somewhat at one end and broadening at the other, they become attached by the narrower extremity, while at the opposite one a depression takes place, deepening in the centre till it becomes an aperture, and extending its margin to form the tentacles.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 Various
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They may be seen in great numbers in the spring, floating about in the water, or rather swimming, -- for the motion of all Radiates in their earliest stage of existence is rapid and constant, in consequence of the vibratile cilia that cover the surface.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 Various
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