单词 | flagellum |
释义 | flagellumn. 1. In humorously pedantic use: A whip, scourge. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > instrument or place of corporal punishment > [noun] > whip or scourge swepea700 scourgea1225 whipc1325 swaipa1400 flagellec1430 flail?a1475 foueta1492 scorpion1541 lash1577 sot1588 thong1592 chawbuck1698 knout1716 taw1787 flagellum1807 1807 ‘Ben Block’ (title) Flagellum flagellated. 1830 E. Bulwer-Lytton Paul Clifford I. iii. 51 Boxing-gloves, books, fly-flanking flagellum. 1842 R. H. Barham Ingoldsby Penance! in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 104 The Knight..Received the first taste of the Father's flagellum. 2. a. Botany. A runner or creeping shoot. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > shoot, sprout, or branch > [noun] > runner, creeping, or trailing shoot runner1652 trailing1727 propagulum1807 flagellum1861 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. cxviii. 1015 The hihest sprayes of a vyne hatte flagella.] 1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. i. iii. 117 The Runner..is an elongated slender prostrate branch, sent off from the base of the stem, and giving off at its extremities roots and leaves... The runner is sometimes known under the name of the flagellum. b. Zoology and Biology. A lash-like appendage. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > [noun] > tail- or lash-like tailet1817 flagellum1852 pulsellum1880 1852 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Crustacea Pt. I 227 Outer antennæ as long as the front, flagellum 10-jointed. 1878 F. J. Bell & E. R. Lankester tr. C. Gegenbaur Elements Compar. Anat. 79 The flagella..are modifications of the cilia. 1885 Athenæum 12 Dec. 773/3 A cholera bacillus showing a flagellum at either end. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1807 |
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