The story
- Latin · derived fromstramen“straw”
- English todaystramenopile
Coined in 1989 by David J. Patterson, Latin stramen (“straw”) + pilus (“hair”), referring to an anterior flagellum with short hairlike extensions that forms during the life cycle of most members of the lineage.
Words from the same roots
Latinstramen all →
strommel
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.