flagellum

created by dem bones

(thing) by everyone (3.2 mon) (print) ? (I like it!) Sat Nov 13 1999 at 14:42:32

A longish, whip-like appendage of sperm, protozoa and the like...aids in locomotion.

(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Tue Dec 21 1999 at 23:40:54

Fla*gel"lum (?), n.; pl. E. Flagellums (#), L. Flagella (#). [L., a whip. See Flagellate, v. t.]

A young, flexible shoot of a plant; esp., the long trailing branch of a vine, or a slender branch in certain mosses.

2. Zool. (a)

A long, whiplike cilium. See Flagellata.

(b)

An appendage of the reproductive apparatus of the snail.

(c)

A lashlike appendage of a crustacean, esp. the terminal ortion of the antennae and the epipodite of the maxilipeds. See Maxilliped.

Flagellate	Mastigoneme	20,000 Leagues Under the Sea	flagrum
Alternation of generations	basal body	locomotion	chemical composition of sperm
Flagellata	DPT	Dai-Un's Memory	Fnord
ATP synthase	Chromista	Stalked Particle	axoneme
Uniflagellate	choanoflagellate	Rhodophyta	Devo
flail	Effluent	Procerite	endosymbiotic hypothesis

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