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Definition of Polymastigote
1. Noun. Flagellates with several flagella.
Group relationships: Order Polymastigina, Polymastigina
Medical Definition of Polymastigote
1. A mastigote having several grouped flagella. Origin: poly-+ G. Mastix, a whip (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Polymastigote
Literary usage of Polymastigote
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Register by University of California, Berkeley, California, University (1920)
"... a polymastigote flagellate with a plasmodial phase; II. ... a polymastigote
flagellate with a highly developed neuro- motor system; III. ..."
2. Whole Life Cycle of Chromosomes and Their Coiling Systems: Transactions, APS by L. R. Cleveland (2008)
"In termites, so far as we know, all protozoa, except a few small species of
polymastigote flagellates, are lost each time the insect molts, and have to be ..."
3. News Notes of California Libraries by California State Library (1920)
"... a polymastigote flagellate with a linear plasmodial phase, by Charles Atwood
Kofoid and Olive Swezy. Berkeley, July 14, 1919. p. 1- 20, 1 text fig. roy. ..."
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