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Definition of Flagellate protozoan

1. Noun. A usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some are pathogens of humans and other animals.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Flagellate Protozoan

Literary usage of Flagellate protozoan

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Reformed Quarterly Review by Thomas G. Apple (1896)
"A still more differentiated state of being is represented by the very interesting groups of certain flagellate Protozoan colonies, eg, Eudorina, ..."

2. Public sanitation, and other papers by Clement Adelbert Whiting (1916)
"Another Protozoan which is responsible for a serious infection is the Trypanosome gambiense. This is a flagellate protozoan belonging to the family ..."

3. The Pathology and Differential Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases of Animals by Veranus Alva Moore (1916)
"Surra is an infect'ous disease of solipeds, camels and cattle caused by a flagellate protozoan. It is determined by a continuous fever with alternate ..."

4. A Text-book upon the pathogenic Bacteria and Protozoa for students of by Joseph McFarland (1915)
"... and from the vacuole near it a flagellum is developed, and the organism becomes in abou' ninety-six hours a flagellate protozoan resembling ..."

5. Handbook of Medical Entomology by William Albert Riley, Oskar Augustus Johannsen (1915)
"Stiles and Keister (1913) have shown that spores of Lamblia intestinalis, a flagellate protozoan living in the human intestine, may be carried by ..."

6. Syphilology and venereal disease by Charles Frederic Marshall (1912)
"... of syphilis is a flagellate protozoan, and must be distinguished from the spirilla, which are forms of bacteria. The names Treponema pallidum and ..."

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