mastigopod

English

Noun

mastigopod (plural mastigopods)

1. (zoology, obsolete) A member of the Mastigopoda (protozoans which possess cilia or flagella).
   • 1888, Thomas Henry Huxley, A Manual of the Anatomy of Invertebrated Animals, page 77:

     After swimming about for a while, these mastigopods draw in their flagella, and become creeping myxopods.

Usage notes

• Single-cell (but possibly colony-forming) organisms with flagella can be found in kingdoms Protozoa, Plantae, and Chromista.
• Single-cell ciliates are usually now placed in kingdom Chromista, in class Ciliophora.

Hyponyms

• (certain protozoans): Ciliata, Flagellata - classes