flagellate
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English
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Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -ɛlət
Verb
[edit]flagellate (third-person singular simple present flagellates, present participle flagellating, simple past and past participle flagellated)
- (transitive) To whip or scourge.
- 1976 December 11, David Holland, “A Conversation With Maitresse”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 24, page 13:
- Red welts rising from a flagellated back
- (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.
Translations
[edit]to whip or scourge
Adjective
[edit]flagellate (comparative more flagellate, superlative most flagellate)
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]resembling a whip
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biology: having flagella
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Noun
[edit]flagellate (plural flagellates)
Translations
[edit]organism with flagella
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Italian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Verb
[edit]flagellate
- inflection of flagellare:
Etymology 2
[edit]Participle
[edit]flagellate f pl
Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]flagellāte
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