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Definition: Flagellate |
FlagellateAdjective1. Having or resembling a flagellum or flagella. Noun1. Usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some pathogens of humans and other animals. Verb1. Whip; "The religious fanatics flagellated themselves". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Flagellates are single-celleded protists with one or more flagella, whip-like organelles often used for propulsion. Originally they were grouped together as the class or phylum Mastigophora, but the different lines do not appear particularly closely related. These include:
It is quite possible the ancestral eukaryote was a flagellate, and if not they appeared fairly early on in their development. The animals, fungi, and plants are all derived from various lines of flagellates - something reflected in the presence of flagellate cells in most forms, whose ultrastructure is a useful guide to determining relationships.
- Retortamonads
- Diplomonads
- Oxymonads
- Parabasalia
- Jakobids
- Heterolobosea (amoeboflagellates, etc)
- Euglenozoa (kinetoplastids, euglenids, etc)
- Ebriids
- Ellobiopsids
- Dinoflagellates
- Haptophytes
- Stramenopiles (golden algae, bicosoecids, etc)
- Cryptomonads
- Green algae
- Choanoflagellates
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Flagellate."
Synonyms: FlagellateSynonyms: flagellated (adj), whiplike (adj), flagellate protozoan (n), flagellated protozoan (n), mastigophoran (n), mastigophore (n), scourge (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Punishment | Strike; deal a blow to, administer the lash, smite; slap, slap the face; smack, cuff, box the ears, spank, thwack, thump, beat, lay on, swinge, buffet; thresh, thrash, pummel, drub, leather, trounce, sandbag, baste, belabor; lace, lace one's jacket; dress, dress down, give a dressing, trim, warm, wipe, tund, cob, bang, strap, comb, lash, lick, larrup, wallop, whop, flog, scourge, whip, birch, cane, give the stick, switch, flagellate, horsewhip, bastinado, towel, rub down with an oaken towel, rib roast, dust one's jacket, fustigate, pitch into, lay about one, beat black and blue; beat to a mummy, beat to a jelly; give a black eye. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Flagellate |
| English words defined with "flagellate": costia, Costia necatrix ♦ division Euglenophyta ♦ euglenid, euglenoid, Euglenophyta, euglenophyte, Eye animalcule ♦ Flagellating ♦ genus Costia, genus Leishmania ♦ hypermastigote ♦ Leishmania ♦ peridinian ♦ Swarmspore ♦ zooflagellate, zoomastigote. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "flagellate": Acanthamoeba ♦ Euglena gracilis, Euglenida ♦ Kinetoplastida ♦ Naegleria fowleri ♦ Schizopyrenida, Sperm Motility ♦ Trichomonas, Tritrichomonas, Tritrichomonas foetus, Trypanosoma ♦ Volvocida. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "flagellate": Uniflagellate. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Giardia intestinalis, a protozoan flagellate (Diplomonadida). (references) | |
Despite its name, Dientamoeba fragilis is not an ameba but a flagellate. (references) | ||
Trichomonas vaginalis, a flagellate, is the most common pathogenic protozoan of humans in industrialized countries. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Expressions using "flagellate": flagellate protozoan ♦ plantlike flagellate. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
flagellate | 12 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "flagellate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | fshikulloj (flick, flog, lash, quirt, scourge, switch, whip), rrah me kamzhik (flog, lash, sjambok), me zgjatime, me degë zvarritëse, i lakueshëm (declinable, flexible, inflective, inflexional, malleable, pliable, springy). (various references) | |
Arabic | السوطيات. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | бичувам (castigate, discipline, lash, scourge, welt). (various references) | |
Chinese | 有鞭毛. (various references) | |
Czech | bièovat (flog, lash, slash, whip). (various references) | |
French | flageller (flog). (various references) | |
German | geißeln (whip). (various references) | |
Greek | μαστιγώνω (flog, whip). (various references) | |
Hebrew | להלקות (beat, belabour, flog, horsewhip, lash, scourge, tan, trounce, whip), שוטנית. (various references) | |
Hungarian | ostoroz (to scourge, to whip). (various references) | |
Indonesian | mencambuk (cane). (various references) | |
Italian | flagellare (flail, flog, lash, scourge). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 緑虫 (freshwater flagellate). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | みどりむし (freshwater flagellate). (various references) | |
Manx | scuitchey (flagellation, lash, scourge, switch, whisk), scuitchal (lash, scourge, scutch, slash, slashing, switch, whisk). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | agellateflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | flagelar (lash, mortify). (various references) | |
Romanian | flagela (flog, scourge). (various references) | |
Russian | бичевать (castigate, scourge, whip). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | šibati bičem. (various references) | |
Spanish | flagelar (flagellar, scourge). (various references) | |
Swedish | flagellat, piska (beat, cane, lash, whip), gissla (scourge), gisseldjur (flagellates). (various references) | |
Turkish | kamçılamak (flog, hop up, horsewhip, lash, leather, scourge, sjambok, slash, swinge, tan, welt, whip, whip up), kamçılılar, kırbaçlamak (colt, flog, horsewhip, lash, scourge, sjambok, slash, swinge, swish, thong, welt, whip). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | бичувати (castigate, scour, scourge, whip). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Mastigophorea. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "flagellate": flagellated, flagellates. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "flagellate": biflagellate, dinoflagellate, hemoflagellate, phytoflagellate. (additional references) | |
Words containing "flagellate": dinoflagellates, hemoflagellates, phytoflagellates. (additional references) | |
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"Flagellate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: flagelate, flagellae, flagellare, flagellata, flaggelate, Flugplatz. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "flagellate" (pronounced fla"julā't) |
| 6 | -a" j u l ā' t | adulate. |
| 5 | -j u l ā' t | undulate. |
| 4 | -u l ā' t | annihilate, articulate, accumulate, assimilate, calculate, circulate, coagulate, congratulate, copulate, correlate, depopulate, distillate, emulate, encapsulate, escalate, extrapolate, formulate, gastrulate, inoculate, insulate, interpolate, isolate, lanceolate, manipulate, miscalculate, mutilate, oscillate, overregulate, percolate, populate, postulate, recalculate, recapitulate, reformulate, regulate, reregulate, simulate, speculate, stimulate, stipulate, strangulate, tabulate, titillate, vacillate, ventilate. |
| 3 | -l ā' t | angulate, boilerplate, breastplate, capitulate, contemplate, ejaculate, electroplate, legislate, nameplate. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-f-g-l-l-l-t" | |
-2 letters: flagella. | |
-3 letters: fellate, galeate, gallate, galleta, leafage, leaflet, tallage. | |
-4 letters: allege, allele, eaglet, fallal, galeae, gallet, gelate, legate, telega. | |
-5 letters: agate, aglee, aglet, alate, algae, algal, allee, eagle, elate, fatal, fella, fetal, fleet, galea, gleet, legal, telae. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-e-f-g-l-l-l-t" | |
+1 letter: flagellated, flagellates. | |
+2 letters: biflagellate. | |
+4 letters: dinoflagellate, hemoflagellate. | |
+5 letters: dinoflagellates, hemoflagellates, phytoflagellate. | |
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