FLAGELLATE PROTOZOAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flagellate protozoan mean? 

• FLAGELLATE PROTOZOAN (noun)
  The noun FLAGELLATE PROTOZOAN has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: FLAGELLATE PROTOZOAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLAGELLATE PROTOZOAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

flagellate; flagellate protozoan; flagellated protozoan; mastigophoran; mastigophore

Hypernyms ("flagellate protozoan" is a kind of...):

protozoan; protozoon (any of diverse minute acellular or unicellular organisms usually nonphotosynthetic)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "flagellate protozoan"):

dinoflagellate (chiefly marine protozoa having two flagella; a chief constituent of plankton)

genus Leishmania; Leishmania (flagellate protozoan that causes leishmaniasis)

zooflagellate; zoomastigote (flagellate protozoan lacking photosynthesis and other plant-like characteristics)

hypermastigote (flagellate symbiotic in the intestines of e.g. termites)

polymastigote (flagellates with several flagella)

costia; Costia necatrix (a flagellate that is the cause of the frequently fatal fish disease costiasis)

giardia (a suspected cause of diarrhea in humans)

trichomonad (cause of trichomoniasis in women and cattle and birds)

Holonyms ("flagellate protozoan" is a member of...):

class Flagellata; class Mastigophora; Flagellata; Mastigophora (protozoa having flagella)