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Flagellate

Flagellate Meaning & Definition
Flagellate Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Flagellate?

[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"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Flagellate: flagellate protozoan | flagellated | flagellated protozoan | mastigophoran | mastigophore | scourge | whiplike

Related Terms | Find terms related to Flagellate: 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

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

Flagellate In Webster's Dictionary

\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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