biflagellate

1. 1.

   having two flagella

   “a biflagellate zoospore”

Questions about biflagellate

What does biflagellate mean?

biflagellate means "having two flagella".

How many syllables are in biflagellate?

biflagellate has 4 syllables and divides as bi-fla-gel-late under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is biflagellate a common word?

biflagellate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.