flagellate

adj. having whip-like parts (Biology); sending out runners or creepers (Botany)

v. beat with a whip, flog

Flagellates are cells with one or more whip-like organelles called flagella. Some cells in animals may be flagellate, for instance the spermatozoa of most phyla. Higher plants and fungi do not produce flagellate cells, but the closely related green algae and chytrids do. Many protists take the form of single-celled flagellates. They are found in most lines of eukaryotes, and it is likely that all surviving eukaryotes evolved from them.
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Noun
1. usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some pathogens of humans and other animals
(synonym) flagellate protozoan, flagellated protozoan, mastigophoran, mastigophore
(hypernym) protozoan, protozoon
(hyponym) dinoflagellate
(member-holonym) Mastigophora, class Mastigophora, Flagellata, class Flagellata
Verb
1. whip; "The religious fanatics flagellated themselves"
(synonym) scourge
(hypernym) flog, welt, whip, lather, lash, slash, strap, trounce
(derivation) scourge, flagellum
Adjective
1. having or resembling a flagellum or flagella
(synonym) flagellated, whiplike
(pertainym) flagellum

adj. flagellate, having whip-like parts (Biology); sending out runners or creepers (Botany)

v. scourge, flagellate, flog, flail

adj. flagellate, having flagella, having whip-like parts (Biology)