Flagellum

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  flagellum
       n 1: a whip used to inflict punishment (often used for pedantic
            humor) [syn: {scourge}]
       2: a lash-like appendage used for locomotion (e.g., in sperm
          cells and some bacteria and protozoa)
       [also: {flagella} (pl)]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  96 Moby Thesaurus words for "flagellum":
     Golgi apparatus, 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,
     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