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Webster 1913 Edition
Flagellum
‖
Fla-gel′lum
,Noun.
pl. E.
Flagellums
(#)
, L. Flagella
(#)
. [L., a whip. See ]
Flagellate
, Verb.
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.
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 antennæ and the epipodite of the maxilipeds. See
Maxilliped
.