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fla·gel·lum
\fləˈjeləm\ noun
(plural flagel·la \-elə\ ; also flagellums)
Etymology: Latin, whip, shoot of a plant
1. : whip, scourge
2. [New Latin, from Latin] : any of various elongated filiform appendages of animals: as
a. : the slender distal part of some antennae
b. : a sensory organ that suggests a comb on the chelicerae of most solpugids and pseudoscorpions
3. [New Latin, from Latin] : a long tapering process that projects singly or in groups from a cell or microorganism, is possibly equivalent to a much enlarged cilium, and is the primary organ of motion of flagellated protozoans and many algae, bacteria, and zoospores
4. : a long slender shoot (as a stolon or runner) of a plant |