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noun
Any flagellate of the phylum Mastigophora (a nematocyst that has a tube that extends beyond its hempe)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
In Ancient Greece, an official who carried a whip
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noun
a usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some are pathogens of humans and other animals
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: flagellate, flagellate protozoan, flagellated protozoan, mastigophoran
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Broader terms: protozoan, protozoon
Narrower terms: dinoflagellate, Leishmania, genus Leishmania, zoomastigote, zooflagellate, hypermastigote, polymastigote, costia, Costia necatrix, giardia, trichomonad
History
By surface analysis, mastigo- + -phore.
