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POLYMASTIGOTE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does polymastigote mean?
• POLYMASTIGOTE (noun)
The noun POLYMASTIGOTE has 1 sense:
1. flagellates with several flagella
Familiarity information: POLYMASTIGOTE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Flagellates with several flagella
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("polymastigote" is a kind of...):
flagellate; flagellate protozoan; flagellated protozoan; mastigophoran; mastigophore (a usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some are pathogens of humans and other animals)
Holonyms ("polymastigote" is a member of...):
order Polymastigina; Polymastigina (small usually parasitic flagellates)
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