hair vs cilium

hair and cilium both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
hair	Yes	No	No	No
cilium	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, cilium is a hyponym of hair; that is, cilium is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than hair:

hair: a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss
cilium: any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids

Other hyponyms of hair include coat, pelage, guard hair, mane, forelock, foretop, beard, body hair, down, pile, head of hair, mane, cowlick, coif, coiffure, hair style, hairdo, hairstyle, lock, facial hair, bush, crotch hair, pubic hair, brow, eyebrow, supercilium, eyelash, lash.

hair (noun)	cilium (noun)
a filamentous projection or process on an organism	a hairlike projection from the surface of a cell; provides locomotion in free-swimming unicellular organisms
cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments	any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids
a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss
any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal
filamentous hairlike growth on a plant
a very small distance or space

Difference between hair and cilium

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