Akademik

mastigophoran

noun

a usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some are pathogens of humans and other animals

• Syn: ↑flagellate, ↑flagellate protozoan, ↑flagellated protozoan, ↑mastigophore

• Derivationally related forms: ↑flagellate (for: ↑flagellate), ↑flagellum (for: ↑flagellate)

• Hypernyms: ↑protozoan, ↑protozoon

• Hyponyms:

↑dinoflagellate, ↑Leishmania, ↑genus Leishmania, ↑zoomastigote, ↑zooflagellate, ↑hypermastigote, ↑polymastigote, ↑costia, ↑Costia necatrix, ↑giardia, ↑trichomonad

• Member Holonyms: ↑Mastigophora, ↑class Mastigophora, ↑Flagellata, ↑class Flagellata

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I. \\| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷|gäf(ə)rən\ adjective

Etymology: New Latin Mastigophora + English -an, adjective suffix

: of or relating to the Mastigophora

II. noun (-s)

Etymology: New Latin Mastigophora + English -an, n. suffix

: a flagellate of the class Mastigophora

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/mas'ti gof"euhr euhn/, n.

1. Also, mastigophore /mas"ti geuh fawr', -fohr'/. a protozoan of the phylum Mastigophora.

adj.

2. belonging or pertaining to the Mastigophora.

[1905-10; MASTIGOPHOR(A) + -AN]

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mastigophˈoran noun and adjective

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Main Entry: ↑Mastigophora

Useful english dictionary. 2012.