Flagellar i a (flajelaria)

[NL., Flage IMG:content-1417.png:[graphic] A Colony of Cercomonas termo, a typical flagellate infusorian, magnified 300 times. endoplast and a contractile vacuole, but no permanent oral aperture, though there is an oral region of the body constituting the food-vacuole, by which food enters along with a globule of water. The flagella are locomotory organs. The cell of which a flagellate infusorian mainly consists differs much in form in the different genera, being sometimes prolonged around the base of the flagellum like a collar, and the whole animal may have a calycine investment. The flagella of the same animal may differ much, one being stout and only occasionally moved, the other forming a delicate cilium in constant vibration. The Flag ell at a multiply by various methods of fi ion and sporulation, and also by conjugation. Also called Masti gophora. Flag ell at a disco stomata. Same as Choano Aagellata. - Flag ell at a eustomata, an order of animal cules po e ing one or more flagelliform appendages, but no locomotive organs in the form of cilia, a distinct oral aperture or cytostome invariably developed, multiplying by longitudinal or transverse fi ion, or by the subdivision of a whole or part of the body-substance into sporular elements. Flag ell at a pan to stomata, an order of animalcules simply flagelliferous, having in their characteristic adult state no supplementary lobate or ray-like pseudopodic appendages, oral or ingestive area entirely undefined, food-substances being incepted indifferently at all points of the periphery. flagella tel (flaj'e-lat), v. t.; pret. and pp. flagel lated, ppr. flagellating. [ It. flag ell are = Pg. Pr. flagellar = F. flageller ), whip, scourge, lash, Γ The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary flagellate flagella tel, flagellated (flaj'e-lāt, -la-ted), a. [NL. flag ell at us, furnishe furnished with a flagellum, 2248 The flagella ... become visible in the hanging-drop at one or both extremities of the bacteria by forming an eddy. Hueppe , Bacteriological Investigations (trans.), p. 73. Flagella can be characterized [in Infusoria ] as isolated and more or le elongate cilia. S. Kent , Infusoria, p. 44. flagon flagitate (flaj'i-tāt), v. t.; pret. and pp. flag i tated, ppr. flagitating. [L. flag it at us, pp. of flag it are, demand, demand fiercely, urge with violence or importunity; akin to flag rare, burn: see flagrant.] To demand fiercely or imperi erous: as, a flagellate infusorian (in this use technically opposed to ciliate ). Just as do the flagellated zoöspores of Protophytes. W. B. Carpenter, Micros., § 393. A large series of more complex forms of flagellate Infusoria has been recently brought to our knowledge. W. B. Carpenter, Micros., § 424. 2. Like a whip-lash; flagelliform: as, a flagel late proce .-3. In bot., producing filiform runners or runner-like branches. - Flagellate cell. See cell. - Flagellated chambers. Same as cili ated chambers (which see, under ciliate ).