| NOUN | animal | flagellate, flagellate protozoan, flagellated protozoan, mastigophoran, mastigophore | a usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages |
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| ADJECTIVE | pert | flagellate, flagellated, whiplike, lash-like | having or resembling a lash or whip (as does a flagellum) |
| VERB | contact | flagellate, scourge | whip |
| Sounds | flae'jhahley.t | |
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| Rhymes | abate ... welterweight: 559 rhymes with eyt... | |
| Meaning | Having or resembling a lash or whip (as does a flagellum). | |
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| Synonyms | flagellated, whiplike, lash-like | |
| Spanish | flagelado | |
| Catalan | flagel·lat | |
| Adjectives | biflagellate | having two flagella |
| Nouns | flagellate | a usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages |
| flagellum | a lash-like appendage used for locomotion (e.g., in sperm cells and some bacteria and protozoa) | |
| Meaning | Whip. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody | |
| Example | "The religious fanatics flagellated themselves" | |
| Synonym | scourge | |
| Broader | flog, welt, whip, lather, lash, slash, strap, trounce | Beat severely with a whip or rod |
| Spanish | azotar, escoria, flagelar | |
| Nouns | flagellant | a person who whips himself as a religious penance |
| flagellant | a person who is whipped or whips himself for sexual gratification | |
| flagellation | beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment | |
| flagellum | a whip used to inflict punishment (often used for pedantic humor) | |
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