flagellate - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

a usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some are pathogens of humans and other animals

Synonyms

• flagellate
• flagellate protozoan
• flagellated protozoan
• mastigophoran
• mastigophore

More generic

• protozoan
• protozoon

More specific

• Costia necatrix
• Leishmania
• costia
• dinoflagellate
• genus Leishmania
• giardia
• hypermastigote
• polymastigote
• trichomonad
• zooflagellate
• zoomastigote

Related

• Flagellata
• Mastigophora
• class Flagellata
• class Mastigophora

Verb

whip

Synonyms

• flagellate
• scourge

More generic

• flog
• lash
• lather
• slash
• strap
• trounce
• welt
• whip

Adjective

having or resembling a lash or whip (as does a flagellum)

Synonyms

• flagellate
• flagellated
• lash-like
• whiplike

Related

• flagellum

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