Meaning of FLAGELLATE
| Pronunciation: | | 'flaju`leyt
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- [n] usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some pathogens of humans and other animals
- [adj] having or resembling a flagellum or flagella
- [v] whip; "The religious fanatics flagellated themselves"
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| | Synonyms: | | flagellate protozoan, flagellated, flagellated protozoan, mastigophoran, mastigophore, scourge, whiplike |
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| | See Also: | | class Flagellata, class Mastigophora, costia, Costia necatrix, dinoflagellate, Flagellata, flog, genus Leishmania, giardia, hypermastigote, lash, lather, Leishmania, Mastigophora, polymastigote, protozoan, protozoon, slash, strap, trichomonad, trounce, welt, whip, zooflagellate, zoomastigote | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Flag"el*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Flagellated}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Flagellating}.] [L. flagellatus, p. p. of
flagellare to scoure, fr. flagellum whip, dim. of flagrum
whip, scoure; cf. fligere to strike. Cf. {Flall}.]
To whip; to scourge; to flog.
\Fla*gel"late\, a.
1. Flagelliform.
2. (Zo["o]l.) Of or pertaining to the Flagellata.
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| | Related Terms: | | baste, bastinado, beat, belabor, belt, birch, buffet, cane, club, cowhide, cudgel, cut, drub, flail, flog, fustigate, give a whipping, give the stick, hide, horsewhip, knout, lace, larrup, lash, lay on, pistol-whip, pommel, pummel, rawhide, scourge, smite, spank, strap, stripe, swinge, switch, thrash, thump, trounce, truncheon, wallop, whale, whip, whop |
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