flagellate protozoan

Questions about flagellate protozoan

What does flagellate protozoan mean?

flagellate protozoan means "a usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some are pathogens of humans and other animals".

What is another word for flagellate protozoan?

Close synonyms include flagellate, flagellated protozoan, mastigophoran, mastigophore. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is flagellate protozoan a common word?

flagellate protozoan 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.