myxoflagellaten.
/ˌmɪksə(ʊ)ˈfladʒᵻlət/, /ˌmɪksə(ʊ)ˈfladʒl̩ət/, /ˌmɪksə(ʊ)ˈfladʒᵻleɪt/, /ˌmɪksə(ʊ)ˈfladʒl̩eɪt/, U.S. /ˌmɪksoʊˈflædʒələt/, /ˌmɪksoʊˈflædʒəˌleɪt/ Biology.
In slime moulds: a motile cell having a flagellum; a swarm-cell. Cf. myxamoeba n.
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1912 E. A. Minchin Introd. Study Protozoa xi. 239 After a time the amœbula develops a flagellum, and becomes a flagellula or zoospore (‘myxoflagellate’), which feeds and multiplies by fission.
1959 Systematic Zool. 8 174/2 The common appearance of myxamoebae and/or myxoflagellates in the life cycle of all the ‘Mycetozoa’ clearly indicates a protozoan ancestry in the distant past.
1994 New Phytologist 126 176/1 Germination..releases an unequally biflagellate myxoflagellate, zoospore or swarm-cell which may feed for a while in soil or wood before losing its flagella and becoming a myxamoeba.
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