flagellate
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- Rhymes: -ɛlət
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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.
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to whip or scourge
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flagellate (comparative more flagellate, superlative most flagellate)
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resembling a whip
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biology: having flagella
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flagellate (plural flagellates)
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organism with flagella
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flagellate
- inflection of flagellare:
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flagellate f pl
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flagellāte