Definition of Biflagellate

1. Adjective. Having two flagella. "A biflagellate zoospore"

Partainyms: Flagellate

Definition of Biflagellate

1. a. Having two long, narrow, whiplike appendages.

Definition of Biflagellate

1. Adjective. Having two flagella ¹

2. Noun. Any organism that has two flagella ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Biflagellate

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Biflagellate

1. Having two long, narrow, whiplike appendages. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Biflagellate

bifid rib
bifid tongue
bifid uterus
bifid uvula
bifidate
bifidities
bifidity
bifidly
bifidobacteria
bifidus factor
bifilar
bifilarly
biflabellate
biflagellate (current term)
biflagellated
biflagellates
biflavonoid
biflex
biflorous
bifocal
bifocal lens
bifocal spectacles
bifocaled
bifocalled
bifocals
bifold
bifoliate
bifolio

Literary usage of Biflagellate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Manual of the Infusoria: Including a Description of All Known Flagellate by William Saville-Kent (1880)
"Stein, for reasons as yet unexplained, figures in his recently published volume,* as members of the genus Astasia, biflagellate animalcules corresponding ..."

2. A Manual of the Infusoria: Including a Description of All Known Flagellate by William Saville-Kent (1880)
"Stein, for reasons as yet unexplained, figures in his recently published volume,* as members of the genus Astasia, biflagellate animalcules corresponding ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1884)
"The process, up to the escape of the biflagellate zooid, even with the strange conduct of the contractile vesicle, was as just described. ..."

4. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner Von Marilaun (1902)
"If now these spherical cells (gametangia) are placed in water, the contents of each breaks up into spindle-shaped, biflagellate gametes, which conjugate in ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1884)
"The process, up to the escape of the biflagellate zooid, even with the strange conduct of the contractile vesicle, was as just described. ..."

6. The Monthly Microscopical Journal: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical (1875)
"The third is a fact; for as we have already pointed out, the "biflagellate" monad was wholly absent one year, although its follower the ..."

7. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner Von Marilaun (1902)
"If now these spherical cells (gametangia) are placed in water, the contents of each breaks up into spindle-shaped, biflagellate gametes, which conjugate in ..."

8. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Small, colourless, biflagellate Iso- ... and always biflagellate. The number of individuals united to form a colony varios very much, as does the shape of ..."

9. The Monthly Microscopical Journal: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical (1875)
"The third is a fact; for as we have already pointed out, the "biflagellate" monad was wholly absent one year, although its follower the ..."

10. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Small, colourless, biflagellate Iso- ... and always biflagellate. The number of individuals united to form a colony varios very much, as does the shape of ..."

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