'Flagellum' definitions:
Definition of 'flagellum'
(from WordNet)
noun
A whip used to inflict punishment (often used for pedantic humor) [syn: scourge, flagellum]
noun
A lash-like appendage used for locomotion (e.g., in sperm cells and some bacteria and protozoa)
Definition of 'Flagellum'
From: GCIDE
- Flagellum \Fla*gel"lum\, n.; pl. E. Flagellums, L. Flagella. [L., a whip. See Flagellate, v. t.]
- 1. (Bot.) A young, flexible shoot of a plant; esp., the long trailing branch of a vine, or a slender branch in certain mosses. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Zool.) (a) A long, whiplike cilium. See Flagellata. (b) An appendage of the reproductive apparatus of the snail. (c) A lashlike appendage of a crustacean, esp. the terminal ortion of the antenn[ae] and the epipodite of the maxilipeds. See Maxilliped. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'flagellum'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- animal fiber,
- artificial fiber,
- aster,
- basal body,
- belt,
- bine,
- blacksnake,
- bough,
- branch,
- branchedness,
- branchiness,
- bullwhack,
- bullwhip,
- burgeon,
- capillament,
- cat,
- cell membrane,
- central apparatus,
- central body,
- centriole,
- centroplasm,
- centrosome,
- centrosphere,
- chloroplast,
- chromoplast,
- cilia,
- cilium,
- cirrus,
- cobweb,
- cowhide,
- crop,
- cytocentrum,
- deadwood,
- denier,
- fiber,
- fibrilla,
- filament,
- filamentule,
- flagella,
- fork,
- frond,
- Golgi apparatus,
- gossamer,
- hair,
- hank,
- horsewhip,
- kinoplasm,
- knout,
- kurbash,
- lash,
- limb,
- microbody,
- microcentrum,
- mitochondrion,
- offshoot,
- pili,
- plasmodesmata,
- plastid,
- plastosome,
- quirt,
- ramage,
- ramification,
- rawhide,
- razor strap,
- ribosome,
- runner,
- sarment,
- scion,
- scourge,
- shoot,
- sjambok,
- skein,
- slip,
- spear,
- spherosome,
- spindle fibers,
- spray,
- sprig,
- sprit,
- sprout,
- stolon,
- strand,
- strap,
- sucker,
- suture,
- switch,
- tendril,
- thallus,
- thong,
- thread,
- threadlet,
- twig,
- vacuole,
- web,
- whip,
- whiplash