flagellum

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: fla=gel=lum

CIDE DICTIONARY

flagellum, n. [L., a whip. See Flagellate, v. t.].

•  A young, flexible shoot of a plant; esp., the long trailing branch of a vine, or a slender branch in certain mosses.  [1913 Webster]
•  A long, whiplike cilium. See Flagellata.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

flagellum, n. (pl. flagella)
1 Biol. a long lashlike appendage found principally on microscopic organisms.
2 Bot. a runner; a creeping shoot.

Derivative

flagellar adj. flagelliform adj.

Etymology

L, = whip, dimin. of flagrum scourge

THESAURUS

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