1.
[syn: scourge, flagellum]
2. a lash-like appendage used for locomotion (e.g., in sperm cells and some bacteria and protozoa);
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Flagellum \Fla*gel"lum\, n.; pl. E. Flagellums, L. Flagella.
[L., a whip. See Flagellate, v. t.]
1. (Bot.) A young, flexible shoot of a plant; esp., the long
trailing branch of a vine, or a slender branch in certain
mosses.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Zool.)
(a) A long, whiplike cilium. See Flagellata.
(b) An appendage of the reproductive apparatus of the
snail.
(c) A lashlike appendage of a crustacean, esp. the
terminal ortion of the antenn[ae] and the epipodite of
the maxilipeds. See Maxilliped.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
flagellum
n 1: a whip used to inflict punishment (often used for pedantic
humor) [syn: scourge, flagellum]
2: a lash-like appendage used for locomotion (e.g., in sperm
cells and some bacteria and protozoa)
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
96 Moby Thesaurus words for "flagellum":
Golgi apparatus, animal fiber, artificial fiber, aster, basal body,
belt, bine, blacksnake, bough, branch, branchedness, branchiness,
bullwhack, bullwhip, burgeon, capillament, cat, cell membrane,
central apparatus, central body, centriole, centroplasm,
centrosome, centrosphere, chloroplast, chromoplast, cilia, cilium,
cirrus, cobweb, cowhide, crop, cytocentrum, deadwood, denier,
fiber, fibrilla, filament, filamentule, flagella, fork, frond,
gossamer, hair, hank, horsewhip, kinoplasm, knout, kurbash, lash,
limb, microbody, microcentrum, mitochondrion, offshoot, pili,
plasmodesmata, plastid, plastosome, quirt, ramage, ramification,
rawhide, razor strap, ribosome, runner, sarment, scion, scourge,
shoot, sjambok, skein, slip, spear, spherosome, spindle fibers,
spray, sprig, sprit, sprout, stolon, strand, strap, sucker, suture,
switch, tendril, thallus, thong, thread, threadlet, twig, vacuole,
web, whip, whiplash