zooflagellate

1. 1.

   flagellate protozoan lacking photosynthesis and other plant-like characteristics

   Synonymszoomastigote

   Broaderflagellate

   Part ofZoomastigina

Other forms of zooflagellate

plural

zooflagellates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about zooflagellate

What does zooflagellate mean?

zooflagellate means "flagellate protozoan lacking photosynthesis and other plant-like characteristics".

How many syllables are in zooflagellate?

zooflagellate has 4 syllables: zoo-fla-gel-late. The stress falls on "fla".

What is another word for zooflagellate?

Close synonyms include zoomastigote. 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 zooflagellate a common word?

zooflagellate 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.