| bargello | (noun) needlepoint embroidery stitch that produces zigzag lines | Synonyms: flame stitch |
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| biflagellate | (adjective) having two flagella | - |
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| dinoflagellate | (noun) chiefly marine protozoa having two flagella; a chief constituent of plankton | - |
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| flagellant | (noun) a person who whips himself as a religious penance | - |
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| (noun) a person who is whipped or whips himself for sexual gratification | - |
| flagellate | (adjective) having or resembling a lash or whip (as does a flagellum) | Synonyms: flagellated, lash-like, whiplike |
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| (noun) a usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some are pathogens of humans and other animals | Synonyms: flagellate protozoan, flagellated protozoan, mastigophoran, mastigophore |
| (verb) whip | Synonyms: scourge |
| flagellated | (adjective) having or resembling a lash or whip (as does a flagellum) | Synonyms: flagellate, lash-like, whiplike |
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| flagellation | (noun) beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment | Synonyms: flogging, lashing, tanning, whipping |
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| (noun) beating as a source of erotic or religious stimulation | - |
| flagellum | (noun) a lash-like appendage used for locomotion (e.g., in sperm cells and some bacteria and protozoa) | - |
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| (noun) a whip used to inflict punishment | Synonyms: scourge |
| gelly | (noun) a type of dynamite in which the nitroglycerin is absorbed in a base of wood pulp and sodium or potassium nitrate | Synonyms: gelignite |
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| nigella | (noun) any plant of the genus Nigella | - |
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| shigella | (noun) rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria; some are pathogenic for warm-blooded animals; can be used as a bioweapon | - |
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| shigellosis | (noun) an acute infection of the intestine by shigella bacteria; characterized by diarrhea and fever and abdominal pains | Synonyms: bacillary dysentery |
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| zooflagellate | (noun) flagellate protozoan lacking photosynthesis and other plant-like characteristics | Synonyms: zoomastigote |
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