flagellum

3 definitions found

flagellum - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Flagellum \Fla*gel"lum\, n.; pl. E. Flagellums, L. Flagella.
     [L., a whip. See Flagellate, v. t.]
     1. (Bot.) A young, flexible shoot of a plant; esp., the long
        trailing branch of a vine, or a slender branch in certain
        mosses.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     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 antenn[ae] and the epipodite of
            the maxilipeds. See Maxilliped.
            [1913 Webster]

flagellum - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  flagellum
      n 1: a whip used to inflict punishment (often used for pedantic
           humor) [syn: scourge, flagellum]
      2: a lash-like appendage used for locomotion (e.g., in sperm
         cells and some bacteria and protozoa)

flagellum - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  96 Moby Thesaurus words for "flagellum":
     Golgi apparatus, animal fiber, artificial fiber, aster, basal body,
     belt, bine, blacksnake, bough, branch, branchedness, branchiness,
     bullwhack, bullwhip, burgeon, capillament, cat, cell membrane,
     central apparatus, central body, centriole, centroplasm,
     centrosome, centrosphere, chloroplast, chromoplast, cilia, cilium,
     cirrus, cobweb, cowhide, crop, cytocentrum, deadwood, denier,
     fiber, fibrilla, filament, filamentule, flagella, fork, frond,
     gossamer, hair, hank, horsewhip, kinoplasm, knout, kurbash, lash,
     limb, microbody, microcentrum, mitochondrion, offshoot, pili,
     plasmodesmata, plastid, plastosome, quirt, ramage, ramification,
     rawhide, razor strap, ribosome, runner, sarment, scion, scourge,
     shoot, sjambok, skein, slip, spear, spherosome, spindle fibers,
     spray, sprig, sprit, sprout, stolon, strand, strap, sucker, suture,
     switch, tendril, thallus, thong, thread, threadlet, twig, vacuole,
     web, whip, whiplash