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Definition of Flagellate
1. Adjective. Having or resembling a lash or whip (as does a flagellum).
2. Verb. Whip. "The religious fanatics flagellated themselves"
Generic synonyms: Flog, Lash, Lather, Slash, Strap, Trounce, Welt, Whip
Derivative terms: Flagellant, Flagellant, Flagellation, Flagellum, Scourge, Scourger
3. Noun. A usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some are pathogens of humans and other animals.
Generic synonyms: Protozoan, Protozoon
Group relationships: Class Flagellata, Class Mastigophora, Flagellata, Mastigophora
Specialized synonyms: Dinoflagellate, Genus Leishmania, Leishmania, Zooflagellate, Zoomastigote, Hypermastigote, Polymastigote, Costia, Costia Necatrix, Giardia, Trichomonad
Derivative terms: Flagellum
Definition of Flagellate
1. v. t. To whip; to scourge; to flog.
2. a. Flagelliform.
Definition of Flagellate
1. Verb. To whip or scourge. ¹
2. Adjective. Resembling a whip. ¹
3. Adjective. (biology) Having flagella. ¹
4. Noun. (biology) Any organism that has flagella. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Flagellate
1. [v -LATED, -LATING, -LATES]
Medical Definition of Flagellate
1.
To whip; to scourge; to flog.
Origin: L. Flagellatus, p.p. Of flagellare to scoure, fr. Flagellum whip, dim. Of flagrum whip, scoure; cf. Fligere to strike. Cf. Flall.
1. Flagelliform.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Flagellate
Literary usage of Flagellate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Clinical Hematology: A Practical Guide to the Examination of the Blood with by John C. DaCosta (1901)
"flagellate bodies, smaller in size and containing coarser granules than corresponding
tertian forms, develop from these swollen extracellular parasites, ..."
2. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1896)
"V. The flagellate Bodies.— If a specimen of malarial blood be taken just before
the paroxysm and placed under the microscope, in the course of from fifteen ..."
3. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"CHAPTER IX flagellate AND CILIATE PROTOZOA (MASTIGOPHORA ET INFUSORIA) BY HW CONN
AND CH EDMONDSON Professor of Biology, ..."
4. The Cell in Development and Inheritance by Edmund Beecher Wilson (1911)
"I. flagellate Spermatozoa In its more usual form the animal spermatozoon resembles
... Diagram of the flagellate spermatozoon. middle-piece is in some cases ..."
5. Strasburger's Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger, Hans Fitting (1921)
"protoplasm of the cells of which their yellow resting cells lie. From these the
protoplast later emerges in the form of a ciliated flagellate. ..."
6. The Microscope and Its Revelations by William Benjamin Carpenter, William Henry Dallinger (1891)
"... B, incipient formation of swarm-spores, shown at C escaping from the cyst, at
D swimming freely by their flagellate appendages, and at E creeping in the ..."
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