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peritrichous is an adjective meaning "covered all over with uniformly distributed flagella". It carries one recorded sense.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for peritrichous come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.
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