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Noun
1. usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some pathogens of humans and other animals
(synonym) flagellate, flagellate protozoan, flagellated protozoan, mastigophoran
(hypernym) protozoan, protozoon
(hyponym) dinoflagellate
(member-holonym) Mastigophora, class Mastigophora, Flagellata, class Flagellata

adj. mastigophorous, of protozoans from the class Mastigophora (Zoology)

nf. Mastigophora, class of the flagellates (Zoology)