单词 | mastigophora |
释义 | Mastigophoran. Biology. With plural agreement. A group of single-celled eukaryotic organisms characterized by the possession of one or more flagella used for locomotion, at some stage in their life cycle.Formerly regarded as a subphylum of protozoans, and also known as the class Flagellata. Members of this group are now divided among several new phyla of the kingdom Protista. ΚΠ 1880–1 W. Saville-Kent Man. Infusoria I. i. 26 Diesing divides his..order of the Prothelmintha into the two sub-orders of the Mastigophora and Amastiga. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 873/2 The Mastigophora are frequently termed Flagellata or Flagellates. 1977 T. I. Storer et al. Elements Zool. (ed. 4) xv. 258/1 The presence of one or more long slender flagella..is characteristic of the Mastigophora. 1987 M. S. Laverack & J. Dando Lect. Notes Invertebr. Zool. (ed. 3) ii. 19/2 Each flagellum or cilium is composed of longitudinal microtubules.., which extend from the cell surface..and into the cell as a basal body (sometimes called a blepharoplast in Mastigophora, and a kinetosome in Ciliophora). This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1880 |
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