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▪ I. † ˈflimmer, n. Obs.
[? f. flim-flam n. or v. + -er1.]
? A chatter-box, gossip.
1515Barclay Egloges iii. 145 Rural flimmers, and other of our sort..They chat, they bable.
▪ II. flimmer, n.2 Biol.|ˈflɪmə(r)|
Pl. flimmer.
[a. G. Flimmer tinsel, in Flimmergeissel tinsel-like flagellum (Fischer 1894, in Jahrb. f. wissensch. Bot. XXVI. 191).]
A mastigoneme, esp. a slender one.
1945H. P. Brown in Ohio Jrnl. Sci. XLV. 249 He [sc. Fischer] termed these flagella Flimmergeisseln, or ciliated flagella. Since ‘flimmer’ appears to be a convenient word for the structures, and does not carry any obvious implications in the English language, I shall hereafter employ the term ‘flimmer-flagellum’ in reference to any flagellum bearing hair-like projections along one, two, or all sides. Ibid. 250 Regarding the arrangement of the flimmer, Fischer assumed that they must beat in unison, since, on any given flagellum, all the flimmer project in the same direction. 1947[see *mastigoneme n.]. 1965Bell & Coombe tr. Strasburger's Textbk. Bot. 417 (caption) The long ‘tinsel-type’ flagellum has two rows of fine flimmer hairs.
▪ III. flimmer, v. rare.|ˈflɪmə(r)|
[Onomatopœic; cf. glimmer, flicker and Ger. flimmern.]
intr. To burn unsteadily; to flicker. Also transf.
1880Webb Goethe's Faust iv. xix, Upwards the lamp's eternal light doth flimmer. 1918C. Sandburg Cornhuskers 17 Canada thistle blue and flimmering larkspur blue. Ibid. 114 The shafts across her bed are flimmering. |