ZOOFLAGELLATE

Meaning of ZOOFLAGELLATE in English

|zōə+ noun

Etymology: zo- + flagellate

: a member of the Zoomastigina : a flagellate protozoan lacking photosynthesis and other plantlike characteristics — compare plantlike flagellate

Webster's New International English Dictionary. Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012

ZOOFLAGELLATE — /zoh'euh flaj"euh lit, -layt'/ , n. any flagellated protozoan that lacks photosynthetic pigment and feeds on organic matter: often parasitic. …
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ZOOFLAGELLATE — any flagellate protozoan that is traditionally of the protozoan class Zoomastigophorea (sometimes called Zooflagellata), although recent classifications of this group …
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HYPERMASTIGOTE — any member of the zooflagellate protozoan order Hypermastigida. Hypermastigotes are complex, uninucleate, multiflagellate organisms that are parasitic or symbiotic in …
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FLAGELLATE — (subphylum Mastigophora), any of a group of protozoans, mostly uninucleate organisms, that possess, at some time in the life cycle, …
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ZOOMASTIGOPHOREA — protozoan class also known as Zooflagellata. See zooflagellate.
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HOLOMASTIGOTOIDES — genus of large, pear-shaped zooflagellate protozoans; they are intestinal inhabitants of termites. The species H. tusitala, whose chromosomal behaviour during …
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GIARDIA LAMBLIA — Giardia lamblia also called G. Intestinalis, single-celled zooflagellate protozoan parasite of the order Diplomonadida. Pear- or beet-shaped, the cells have …
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