Definitions for flagellate

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flagellate flag·el·late

Spelling: [verb flaj-uh-leyt; adjective, noun Flagellate is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 190 anagrams from letters in flagellate (aaeefglllt).

Definitions for flagellate

noun

1. any protozoan of the phylum (or class) Mastigophora, having one or more flagella.

adjective

1. Also, flagellated. Biology. having flagella.
2. Botany. producing filiform runners or runnerlike branches, as the strawberry.
3. pertaining to or caused by flagellates.

verb (used with object)

1. to whip; scourge; flog; lash.

Origin of flagellate

1615-25; Latin flagellātus, past participle of flagellāre to whip. See flagellum, -ate¹

Examples for flagellate

Now and again imitation has been resorted to by well-known masters to flagellate the taste of their own day.

These cells, called choanocytes, resemble independent animals of the Protozoa, known as flagellate Infusoria or Choanoflagellata.

It was something you could lay hold of; and was laid hold of, for instance, by Miss Lutwyche, to flagellate Mrs. Masham.

At this stage many of the spores assume each a flagellate cilium, and so acquire power of more rapid locomotion.

I will cut him up, sir; I will flay him—flagellate him—finish him!

Byron, Shelley, and Moore all flagellate him in their poetry.

Most of the flagellate infusoria do just the reverse; they are anodically sensitive or positively galvanotactic.

Page 102: "flagellte Infusoria" was changed to "flagellate Infusoria" to match the corresponding index entry.

The endoderm has cylindrical cells, each one of which has a flagellate hair.

Other modifications are whip-like processes, or flagellate filaments, called vibracula, which constantly beat the water.