paramecia vs ciliate

paramecia and ciliate both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
paramecia	Yes	No	No	No
ciliate	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, ciliate is a hypernym of paramecia; that is, ciliate is a word with a broader meaning than paramecia:

paramecia: any member of the genus Paramecium
ciliate: a protozoan with a microscopic appendage extending from the surface of the cell

Other hypernyms of paramecia include ciliated protozoan, ciliophoran.

paramecia (noun)	ciliate (noun)
any member of the genus Paramecium	a protozoan with a microscopic appendage extending from the surface of the cell

paramecia (adjective)	ciliate (adjective)
	of or relating to the human eyelash
	of or relating to cilia projecting from the surface of a cell
	having a margin or fringe of hairlike projections