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Flagellum   /flədʒˈɛləm/   Listen
Flagellum

noun
(pl. E. flagellums, L. flagella)
1.
A whip used to inflict punishment (often used for pedantic humor).  Synonym: scourge.
2.
A lash-like appendage used for locomotion (e.g., in sperm cells and some bacteria and protozoa).



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"Flagellum" Quotes from Famous Books



... distance must be traversed in a fluid or semifluid medium (frequently within the body of the female parent) before the necessary fusion can occur. To accomplish this latter end of its journey the spermatozoon is endowed with some form of motile apparatus, and this frequently takes the form of a long flagellum, or whip-like process, by the lashing of which the little creature propels itself much as ...
— Mendelism - Third Edition • Reginald Crundall Punnett
... vidua in nudo vitis quae nascitur arvo Numquam se extollit, numquam mitem educat uvam, 50 Sed tenerum prono deflectens pondere corpus Iam iam contingit summum radice flagellum; Hanc nulli agricolae, nulli coluere bubulci: At si forte eademst ulmo coniuncta marito, Multi illam agricolae, multi coluere bubulci: 55 Sic virgo dum intacta manet, dum inculta senescit; Cum par conubium maturo ...
— The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus • Caius Valerius Catullus
... Vnum est, cultellum figere in igne, vel etiam quocunque modo tangere cum cultello: vel cum cultello extrahere carnes de caldario: iuxta ignem etiam incidere cum securi. Credunt etiam quod sic auferri caput debeat igni. Item appodiare se ad flagellum, cum quo percutitur equus: Ipsi enim calcaribus non vtuntur. Item tangere flagellis sagittas. Item iuuenes aues occidere, vel accipere: cum froeno equum percutere, Item os cum osse alio frangere. Item ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries - Vol. II • Richard Hakluyt
... of a type different from the shapeless specks we noted to occur in the meshes of the sponge substance itself. The units of the recesses each consist of a living particle, whose free extremity is raised into a kind of collar, from which projects a lash-like filament known as a flagellum. ...
— Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) - Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky • Various


Words linked to "Flagellum" :   spermatozoan, true bacteria, sperm cell, spermatozoon, appendage, Masticophis flagellum, flagellate, outgrowth, scourge, whip, process, eubacterium, sperm, eubacteria


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