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Flagellate

noun

A usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some are pathogens of humans and other animals. Synonyms: flagellate protozoan, flagellated protozoan, mastigophoran, mastigophore.

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dinoflagellate

plantlike flagellate

zooflagellate

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"Flagellate" Quotes from Famous Books

... wonderfully in power, but the trees are not as yet budded. Shrubby Polygoneae, with flagellate branches and leaves, in which the petiole is as much developed as the lamina, form a curious feature of Affghan Flora; Euphorbia linifolia common, ...

— Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and The - Neighbouring Countries • William Griffith

... good-morrow, Crying, Hey for our Town! through the Borough So when this triumph drew so nigh 605 They might particulars descry, They never saw two things so pat, In all respects, as this and that. First, he that led the cavalcade, Wore a sow-gelder's flagellate, 610 On which he blew as strong a levet As well-fee'd lawyer on his breviate, When over one another's heads They charge (three ranks at once) like Swedes, Next pans and kettle, of all keys, 615 From trebles down to double base; And after them, upon a nag, That might pass for a forehand ...

— Hudibras • Samuel Butler

... belabor; lace, lace one's jacket; dress, dress down, give a dressing, trim, warm, wipe, tund[obs3], cob, bang, strap, comb, lash, lick, larrup, wallop, whop, flog, scourge, whip, birch, cane, give the stick, switch, flagellate, horsewhip, bastinado, towel, rub down with an oaken towel, rib roast, dust one's jacket, fustigate[obs3], pitch into, lay about one, beat black and blue; beat to a mummy, beat to a jelly; give a black eye. tar and feather; pelt, ...

— Roget's Thesaurus

Words linked to "Flagellate" : hypermastigote, Mastigophora, lash, trichomonad, flagellation, class Mastigophora, zoomastigote, Costia necatrix, giardia, polymastigote, genus Leishmania, Leishmania, lather, costia, whip, protozoon, flagellum, trounce, welt, flagellant, strap, flog, slash, Flagellata, class Flagellata, protozoan