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flagellum
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun flagellum has 2 senses
- flagellum(n = noun.artifact) scourge - a whip used to inflict punishment (often used for pedantic humor); Array is a kind of whip
- flagellum(n = noun.animal) Array - a lash-like appendage used for locomotion (e.g., in sperm cells and some bacteria and protozoa); Array is a part of eubacteria, eubacterium, true bacteria, sperm, sperm cell, spermatozoan, spermatozoon
Derived form verb flagellate1
is a kind of appendage, outgrowth, process
Derived form noun flagellate1
CIDE DICTIONARY
- A young, flexible shoot of a plant; esp., the long trailing branch of a vine, or a slender branch in certain mosses. [1913 Webster]
- A long, whiplike cilium. See Flagellata. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
flagellum, n. (pl. flagella)
1 Biol. a long lashlike appendage found principally on microscopic organisms.
2 Bot. a runner; a creeping shoot.
1 Biol. a long lashlike appendage found principally on microscopic organisms.
2 Bot. a runner; a creeping shoot.
Derivative
flagellar adj. flagelliform adj.
Etymology
L, = whip, dimin. of flagrum scourge
THESAURUS
flagellum
Golgi apparatus, animal fiber, artificial fiber, aster, basal body, belt, bine, blacksnake, bough, branch, branchedness, branchiness, bullwhack, bullwhip, burgeon, capillament, cat, cell membrane, central apparatus, central body, centriole, centroplasm, centrosome, centrosphere, chloroplast, chromoplast, cilia, cilium, cirrus, cobweb, cowhide, crop, cytocentrum, deadwood, denier, fiber, fibrilla, filament, filamentule, flagella, fork, frond, gossamer, hair, hank, horsewhip, kinoplasm, knout, kurbash, lash, limb, microbody, microcentrum, mitochondrion, offshoot, pili, plasmodesmata, plastid, plastosome, quirt, ramage, ramification, rawhide, razor strap, ribosome, runner, sarment, scion, scourge, shoot, sjambok, skein, slip, spear, spherosome, spindle fibers, spray, sprig, sprit, sprout, stolon, strand, strap, sucker, suture, switch, tendril, thallus, thong, thread, threadlet, twig, vacuole, web, whip, whiplash
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