polytrichous
Botany and Microbiology
adjective
Covered with hairs or hairlike appendages; specifically of or relating to a bacterium in which the flagella are clustered in bunches rather than spread over the whole cell surface.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Robert Mayne (1808–1868).
- rear vassal
- rear vault
- rear-view mirror
- rearward
- rearwards
- rear-wheel drive
- rear yard
- reascend
- reascendancy
- reascendant
- reascension
- reascent
- Rea sister
- re-ask
- reason
- reasonability
- reasonable
- reasonable cause
- reasonable doubt
- reasonable force
- reasonableness
- reasonable suspicion
- reasonable woman standard
- reasonably
- reasoned