Definitions for flagellum

flagellum fla·gel·lum

Spelling: [fluh-jel-uh m]
IPA: /fləˈdʒɛl əm/

Flagellum is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 194 anagrams from letters in flagellum (aefglllmu).

Definitions for flagellum

noun

  1. Biology. a long, lashlike appendage serving as an organ of locomotion in protozoa, sperm cells, etc.
  2. Botany. a runner.
  3. Also called clavola. Entomology. (in an antenna) the whiplike portion above the basal joints.
  4. a whip or lash.

Origin of flagellum

1800-10; Latin: whip, lash, diminutive of flagrum a whip, scourge

Examples for flagellum

Tim and his congeries hate the clerics, but they fear the flagellum.

The individuals are very small indeed, and it will take your best objective to show the flagellum.

There are important differences between the two species as regards the number of joints to the flagellum.

The genus Ligia agrees with Ligidium alone, in that the flagellum of the larger antenn has more than ten joints.

It was a curious sensation—that first stroke of the flagellum.

It has four joints to the flagellum—Dr. Scharff says three or four—and it moves quickly.

In Trichoniscus the flagellum may have from seven to four (rarely three) joints.

Post-annellus: in Hymenoptera, the 4th joint of antenna and 2d of flagellum.

Its body is covered with minute tubercles and there are only three joints to the flagellum; its movements are by no means rapid.

In the former species there are five or more joints to the flagellum and the antenn, though hairy, lack the bristles.

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