flagellated protozoan

Questions about flagellated protozoan

What does flagellated protozoan mean?

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

What is another word for flagellated protozoan?

Close synonyms include flagellate, flagellate 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 flagellated protozoan a common word?

flagellated 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.