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‖ flagellum|fləˈdʒɛləm|
Pl. flagella.
[L. flagellum whip, scourge.]
1. In humorously pedantic use: A whip, scourge.
1807‘Ben Block’ (title) Flagellum flagellated. 1830Lytton P. Clifford iii, Boxing-gloves, books, fly-flanking flagellum. 1842Barham Ingol. Leg., Ingol. Penance, The Knight..Received the first taste of the Father's flagellum.
2. a. Bot. A runner or creeping shoot.
[1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. cxviii. (1495) 682 The hyghest braunches of a vyne hyghte Flagella.] 1887Bentley Bot. (ed. 5) 117 The Runner or Flagellum..is an elongated, slender, prostrate branch, sent off from the base of the stem, and giving off at its extremity leaves, and roots, and thus producing a new plant.
b. Zool. and Biol. A lash-like appendage.
1852Dana Crust. i. 227 Outer antennæ as long as the front, flagellum 10-jointed. 1878Bell Gegenbaur's Comp. Anat. 79 The flagella..are modifications of the cilia. 1885Athenæum 12 Dec. 773/3 A cholera bacillus showing a flagellum at either end. |