flagellate
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- noun
- /fləˈdʒɛlɪt/
- Specialized
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flagelado
- Their so-called phylum Archaeprotista is polyphyletic: Archamoebae and metamonad flagellates independently lost mitochondria and are no closer phylogenetically than animals and plants.
- flagellates, bactivorous
- mixotrophic flagellates
- heterotrophic flagellates
Examples
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A previous study reported that phosphate limitation could increase lipid content in P. tricornutum, but not in green flagellates 25.
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If you don't welcome third-world invasion and self-flagellate over sins by people who superficially resemble you, and in perpetuity, then you are a neo-Nazi.
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This sponge has nine and this kind of flagellate doesn't have any.
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The blogger must be a very sad person indeed if he or she continually self-flagellates this way.
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While childless greenies from developed countries self-flagellate, the world moves on.
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Four sequences showed homology (80%) with flagellates from different vertebrate classes, whereas the remaining five sequences were excluded because of insufficient quality.
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Disequilibria are exemplified by the grazing fluxes on mixotrophic and heterotrophic flagellates, both of which exceed the pool sizes of the prey.
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The flagellate uses its whip-like appendages to swim through the water.
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Some flagellates can cause diseases in humans, while others are harmless and free-living.
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In pond water, you can often find tiny flagellates moving rapidly with their flagella.
Synonyms
A one-celled organism that moves with whip-like tails and can cause disease in animals or people
A single-cell creature that moves with tail-like parts and can cause disease in people
A single-celled organism that moves using whiplike tails and sometimes causes disease in people
A single-celled animal that has whip-like tails and can cause disease in people or animals
A cell with one or more long tails it uses to move
Compounds
- Specialized
A single-cell creature that moves with tail-like parts and can cause disease in people
- Specialized
A one-celled water living thing that makes food from light and moves with a tail
How Flagellated
Surface Forms
Etymology
Flagellate comes from the Latin word flagellum, which means 'whip', and scientists used it for tiny single-celled creatures because they move with one or more whip-like tails called flagella; so a flagellate is a little living cell that moves by a 'whip'.