亚洲网紅露点

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flagelliform

[ fluh-jel-uh-fawrm ]

adjective

Biology.
  1. long, slender, and flexible, like the lash of a whip.


flagelliform

/ 蹿濒蓹藞诲萧蓻濒瑟藢蹿蓴藧尘 /

adjective

  1. slender, tapering, and whiplike, as the antennae of certain insects
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
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of flagelliform1

1820鈥30; < Latin flagell ( um ) a whip, scourge + -i- + -form
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Example Sentences

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Early in her career, she had cloned the Flag gene, which codes for flagelliform silk, the elastic filament that orb weavers use in the insect-capturing spirals of their webs.

From

Opisthosoma consisting of only ten somites, which have no tergal and sternal elements, the prae-genital somite contracted to form a 鈥渨aist,鈥 as in the Pedipalpi; the last three narrowed to form a caudal support for the many-jointed flagelliform telson, as in the Urotricha.

From

Flagelliform: whip-like; applied to a process.

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