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Flagellate   /flˈædʒəlˌeɪt/   Listen
Flagellate

noun
1.
A usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some are pathogens of humans and other animals.  Synonyms: flagellate protozoan, flagellated protozoan, mastigophoran, mastigophore.
verb
(past & past part. flagellated; pres. part. flagellating)
1.
Whip.  Synonym: scourge.
adjective
1.
Having or resembling a lash or whip (as does a flagellum).  Synonyms: flagellated, lash-like, whiplike.



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"Flagellate" Quotes from Famous Books



... became longer than the rest; the body became more swollen; the pseudopodia were gradually drawn in, with the exception of the more elongate one; this became active in movement and finer in diameter, until ultimately it formed a single flagellum at the anterior of a small monadiform flagellate. The process was repeated two or three times under my observation, so that I am convinced that it was not a developmental form of some rhizopod. Several of them were seen at different times during the summer, and they were always of the same size and form in the flagellated ...
— Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole - Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 • Gary N. Galkins



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