dinoflagellate (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *dinoflagellate*:
NOUN	animal	dinoflagellate	chiefly marine protozoa having two flagella

English > *dinoflagellate*: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaning	chiefly marine protozoa having two flagella; a chief constituent of plankton.
Member of	Dinoflagellata, order Dinoflagellata, Cilioflagellata, order Cilioflagellata	In some classifications considered a phylum of the kingdom Protista
Narrower	noctiluca, Noctiluca miliaris	large bioluminescent marine protozoan
Narrower	peridinian	flagellate with a thick test composed of plates
Broader	flagellate, flagellate protozoan, flagellated protozoan, mastigophoran, mastigophore	A usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages
Spanish	dinoflagellata
Catalan	dinoflagel·lat

HyperDic: dinoflagellate