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FLAGELLATED CELL

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Dictionary entry overview: What does flagellated cell mean?

• FLAGELLATED CELL (noun)
The noun FLAGELLATED CELL has 1 sense:

1. any cell or one-celled organism equipped with a flagellum

Familiarity information: FLAGELLATED CELL used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• FLAGELLATED CELL (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Any cell or one-celled organism equipped with a flagellum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("flagellated cell" is a kind of...):

cell ((biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "flagellated cell"):

choanocyte; collar cell (any of the flagellated cells in sponges having a collar of cytoplasm around the flagellum; they maintain a flow of water through the body)

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