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flagellate

[ verb flaj-uh-leyt; adjective noun flaj-uh-lit, -leyt ]

verb (used with object)

flagellated, flagellating.
  1. to whip; scourge; flog; lash.


adjective

  1. Also flagellated. Biology. having flagella.
  2. Botany. producing filiform runners or runnerlike branches, as the strawberry.
  3. pertaining to or caused by flagellates.

noun

  1. any protozoan of the phylum (or class) Mastigophora, having one or more flagella.

flagellate

verb

  1. tr to whip; scourge; flog
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. possessing one or more flagella
  2. resembling a flagellum; whiplike
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a flagellate organism, esp any protozoan of the phylum Zoomastigina
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

flagellate

  1. Any of various protozoans of the subphylum Mastigophora that move by means of one or more flagella. Some flagellates can make food by photosynthesis (such as euglenas and volvox), and are often classified as green algae by botanists. Others are symbiotic or parasitic (such as trypanosomes). Flagellates are related to amoebas.
  2. Also called mastigophoran
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Derived Forms

  • 藢蹿濒补驳别濒藞濒补迟颈辞苍, noun
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 蹿濒补驳路别濒路濒补路迟辞谤 noun
  • 蹿濒补驳路别濒路濒补路迟辞路谤测 [flaj, -, uh, -l, uh, -tawr-ee], adjective
  • 尘耻濒路迟颈路蹿濒补驳路别濒路濒补迟别 adjective
  • 尘耻濒路迟颈路蹿濒补驳路别濒路濒补迟路别诲 adjective
  • 苍辞苍路蹿濒补驳路别濒路濒补迟别 adjective
  • 苍辞苍路蹿濒补驳路别濒路濒补迟路别诲 adjective
  • 辫谤别路蹿濒补驳路别濒路濒补迟别 adjective
  • 辫谤别路蹿濒补驳路别濒路濒补迟路别诲 adjective
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of flagellate1

1615鈥25; < Latin 蹿濒补驳别濒濒腻迟耻蝉, past participle of 蹿濒补驳别濒濒腻谤别 to whip. See flagellum, -ate 1
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Blood splatters like raindrops from the tattooed body of a Filipino penitent as he flagellates himself to atone for sins.

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The amoeboid cells of R. marina, characterized by their near immobility, can produce flagellated cells with two rearward-extending flagella through budding under conditions of prey scarcity.

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But she also didn鈥檛 flagellate herself for the struggle.

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"This feeding mode is unique, and demonstrates how pico-sized flagellates can feed on larger cells, which is often not considered in the modelling of microbial food webs."

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What the party shouldn鈥檛 do, though, is waste time flagellating its leadership for failing to find the magic message that would have saved the country from a Trumpian takeover.

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