mastigote

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

A single-celled microorganism that moves by means of an undulipodium, such as a flagellum, rather than using pseudopodia.

mastigote mastigotes

From Ancient Greek μάστιξ (mástix, “whip, scourge”) + -ote.

amoeba

mastigophore flagellum cilium

amastigote choanamastigote endomastigote epimastigote opisthomastigote promastigote trypomastigote zoomastigote

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