exflagellationn.
/ˌɛksfladʒəˈleɪʃən/ Zoology.
The formation or shedding of flagella; the development of microgametes resembling flagella.
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1909 in Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang.
1912 E. A. Minchin Introd. Study Protozoa xv. 364 The ‘exflagellation’, or formation of microgametes, which takes place, under normal circumstances, in the stomach of the mosquito, can be seen also in blood freshly drawn and examined on a slide, if ripe sporonts are present.
1926 C. M. Wenyon Protozool. I. i. 85 The microgametocyte gives rise in the course of a few minutes to six or ten microgametes by a violent process known as exflagellation.
1964 M. Hynes Med. Bacteriol. (ed. 8) xxviii. 441 From the male cell, flagella-like gametes develop, a process known as ex-flagellation.
Derivatives
exˈflagellate v. intransitive.
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1912 E. A. Minchin Introd. Study Protozoa xv. 357 The male sporonts..form filamentous male gametes resembling flagella, and are consequently said to ‘exflagellate’.
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