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Flagellata

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the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

noun-plural. An order of Infusoria, having one or two long, whiplike cilia, at the anterior end. It includes monads. See infusoria, and monad.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

A primary group of Infusoria, as distinguished from the Tentaculifera, or Acinetæ, and from the Ciliata.

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n. protozoa having flagella

Word Usage

"These animal microbes are often spoken of as "blood-flagellates" or hæmo-flagellata, and the larger kinds are called "Trypanosomes," or "screw-form parasites," or whilst"

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flagellata discostomata flagellata eustomata flagellata pantostomata

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infusoria monad

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