Flagellate

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  • transitive verb. To whip or flog; scourge.
  • transitive verb. To reproach or punish severely.
  • adjective. Having a flagellum or flagella.
  • adjective. Resembling or having the form of a flagellum; whiplike.
  • adjective. Relating to or caused by a flagellate organism.
  • noun. An organism, such as a euglena, that has one or more flagella.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To whip; scourge.
  • noun. An obsolete perversion of flageolet.
  • In biol, furnished with flagella, or slender whip-like processes; flagelliferous: as, a flagellate infusorian (in this use technically opposed to ciliate).
  • Like a whip-lash; flagelliform: as, a flagellate process.
  • In botany, producing filiform runners or runner-like branches.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To whip; to scourge; to flog.
  • adjective. Flagelliform.
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to the Flagellata.
  • adjective. Having a flagellum or flagella.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To whip or scourge.
  • adjective. Resembling a whip.
  • adjective. Having flagella.
  • noun. Any organism that has flagella.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. whip
  • noun. a usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some are pathogens of humans and other animals
  • adjective. having or resembling a lash or whip (as does a flagellum)
  • cross-reference
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    flog  lash  lather  slash  strap  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    adulate  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    baste  bastinado  beat  belabor  belt  
    verb-form