mastigopod

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noun

A member of the Mastigopoda (protozoans which possess cilia or flagella).

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Meanings

nounmastigopod (plural mastigopods)

plural mastigopods

  1. obsoletebiologyA member of the Mastigopoda (protozoans which possess cilia or flagella).

    After swimming about for a while, these mastigopods draw in their flagella, and become creeping myxopods.

    1888, Thomas Henry Huxley, A Manual of the Anatomy of Invertebrated Animals, page 77

Origin

By surface analysis, mastigo- + -pod.

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