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Flagellate

adjective

Having or resembling a lash or whip (as does a flagellum). Synonyms: flagellated, lash-like, whiplike.

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dinoflagellate

plantlike flagellate

zooflagellate

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"Flagellate" Quotes from Famous Books

... do you ever give orders, except, perhaps, to flagellate either your own skin, or that of others?—But about government.—Bah! allow me to observe that you have been a long time finding out that you rank seventh or eighth ...

— Chicot the Jester - [An abridged translation of "La dame de Monsoreau"] • Alexandre Dumas

... these is a very minute and very common (in vases of decaying flowers, for instance) speck of plasm, which moves about by lashing the water with a single oar (flagellum), or hair-like extension of its substance. This type, however, which is known as the Flagellate, may be derived from the next, which we will take as the primitive and fundamental animal type. It is best seen in the common and familiar Amoeba, a minute sac of liquid or viscid plasm, often not more than a hundredth of an inch in diameter. As its "skin" is merely a finer kind of the viscous plasm, ...

— The Story of Evolution • Joseph McCabe

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