flagellate
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɛlət
Verb[edit]
flagellate (third-person singular simple present flagellates, present participle flagellating, simple past and past participle flagellated)
- (transitive) To whip or scourge.
- (transitive) Of a spermatozoon, to move its tail back and forth.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 63:
- The gigantic egg sits, and the frantic and tiny sperm flagellates its tail to cross vast distances on its quest for dissolution in the huge egg.
Translations[edit]
to whip or scourge
Adjective[edit]
flagellate (comparative more flagellate, superlative most flagellate)
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
resembling a whip
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biology: having flagella
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Noun[edit]
flagellate (plural flagellates)
Translations[edit]
organism with flagella
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Italian[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Verb[edit]
flagellate
- inflection of flagellare:
Etymology 2[edit]
Participle[edit]
flagellate f pl
Latin[edit]
Verb[edit]
flagellāte
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