flagellate

American  

[flaj-uh-leyt, flaj-uh-lit, -leyt] / ˈflædʒ əˌleɪt, ˈflædʒ ə lɪt, -ˌleɪt /

verb (used with object)

flagellated, flagellating

1. to whip; scourge; flog; lash.

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adjective

1. Biology. Also flagellated having flagella.

2. Botany. producing filiform runners or runnerlike branches, as the strawberry.

3. pertaining to or caused by flagellates.

noun

1. any protozoan of the phylum (or class) Mastigophora, having one or more flagella.

flagellate British  

verb

1. (tr) to whip; scourge; flog

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adjective

1. possessing one or more flagella

2. resembling a flagellum; whiplike

noun

1. a flagellate organism, esp any protozoan of the phylum Zoomastigina

flagellate Scientific  

/ flăj′ə-lāt′ /

1. Any of various protozoans of the subphylum Mastigophora that move by means of one or more flagella. Some flagellates can make food by photosynthesis (such as euglenas and volvox), and are often classified as green algae by botanists. Others are symbiotic or parasitic (such as trypanosomes). Flagellates are related to amoebas.

2. Also called mastigophoran

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Other Word Forms

• flagellation noun
• flagellator noun
• flagellatory adjective
• multiflagellate adjective
• multiflagellated adjective
• nonflagellate adjective
• nonflagellated adjective
• preflagellate adjective
• preflagellated adjective

Etymology

Origin of flagellate

1615–25; < Latin flagellātus, past participle of flagellāre to whip. See flagellum, -ate ¹

Example Sentences

But she also didn’t flagellate herself for the struggle.

From Washington Post • Jan. 19, 2023

The flushing was ordered after three of 11 samples of the Lake Jackson’s water tested positive for the deadly flagellate.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 6, 2020

But we don't need to flagellate ourselves with with guilt just because we happened to be born male identified.”

From Salon • Dec. 13, 2018

The point of propelling moral progress is obviously not to accept the status quo, but it’s to identify problems and identify the solution to the problems, not to identify villains and flagellate the villains.

From Slate • Feb. 20, 2018

They didn’t need to dwell on it over and over the way the coaches did and flagellate themselves with it.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger