Definitions for flagellateˈflædʒ əˌleɪt; -lɪt, -ˌleɪt
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
flag•el•lateˈflædʒ əˌleɪt; -lɪt, -ˌleɪt(v.; adj., n.; v.t.)
to whip; scourge.
to punish or berate as if with a whip.
(adj.)Also, flag′el•lat`ed.Biol. having flagella.
Category: Cell Biology
Bot. producing filiform runners or runnerlike branches, as the strawberry.
Category: Botany
pertaining to or caused by flagellates.
Category: Microbiology
(n.)any protozoan of the phylum Mastigophora, having one or more flagella.
Category: Microbiology
Origin of flagellate:
1615–25; < L flagellātus, ptp. of flagellāre to whip. See flagellum , -ate1
flag•el•la•to•ryˈflædʒ ə ləˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i(adj.)
Princeton's WordNet
flagellate, flagellate protozoan, flagellated protozoan, mastigophoran, mastigophore(adj)
a usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some are pathogens of humans and other animals
flagellate, flagellated, whiplike, lash-like(verb)
having or resembling a lash or whip (as does a flagellum)
flagellate, scourge(verb)
whip
"The religious fanatics flagellated themselves"
Wiktionary
flagellate(Noun)
Any organism that has flagella.
flagellate(Verb)
To whip or scourge.
flagellate(Adjective)
Resembling a whip.
flagellate(Adjective)
Having flagella.
Origin: flagellum ("whip")
Webster Dictionary
Flagellate(verb)
to whip; to scourge; to flog
Flagellate(adj)
flagelliform
Flagellate(adj)
of or pertaining to the Flagellata
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