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Related / Similar Words: flagellate protozoan, flagellated protozoan, mastigophoran, mastigophore, scourge, flagellated, whiplike

Definition:

usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some pathogens of humans and other animals;

whip; "The religious fanatics flagellated themselves";

having or resembling a flagellum or flagella;

Hyponyms: dinoflagellate, Leishmania, genus Leishmania, zoomastigote, zooflagellate, hypermastigote, polymastigote, costia, Costia necatrix, giardia, trichomonad

Pertainyms: flagellum

Member Meronyms: Mastigophora, class Mastigophora, Flagellata, class Flagellata

Derivational Morphology: scourge, flagellum, flogger, scourger, whipping, tanning, flogging, lashing, flagellation, flagellant

Anagrams: Flagellata

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