flagelliform (flajeliform)

[L. flagellum, a whip, + form a, shape.] 1. Long, thin, and flexible, like the lash of a whip. .. These appear to be pear-shaped sacs,. each having a flagelliform cilium in its interior. W. B. Carpenter, Micros., § 449. 2. In bot., runner-like. flagellula (fla-jel'u-lä), n.; pl. flagellulæ (-lē). [NL., dim. of L. flagellum, a whip: see flagellum.] A flagellate spore; a spore or sporule with a flagelliform appendage, as a zoöspore, swarm spore, or the monadiform young of many protozoans. The resemblance of these monadiform young (best called flagellule) to the adult forms known as Flag ell at a. Encyc. Brit ., XIX. 837. flagellum (fla-jel'um), n.; pl. flagella (-a). [L., a whip: see flagelle , n., flail , and flagella tel , v.] 1. In Rom.archæol ., a scourge. The Roman scourges were made of leather thongs, several being attached to one handle, and sometimes of cord, to which metal rings were attached, or of wire twisted and eyed so as to form links, the instrument then consisting of many such links in strands of chain. 2. [NL.] In bot.: (a) A runner; a weak, creeping shoot sent out from the bottom of the stem, Flagellum of Strawberry. and rooting and forming new plants at the nodes, as in the strawberry. (b) A twig or young shoot. (c) In certain Hepaticæ, a lash like branch formed on the ventral surface of the stem, and bearing rudimentary leaves.-3. [NL.] In biol., a long lash-like appendage to certain infusorians, bacteria, and protoplasmic reproductive bodies in cryptogams; a a large large cilium. By means of rapid vibration it serves as an organ of locomotion. See flag2 , n. Four or five flag - falne plaiers, poore harmle e knaves, that were neither lords nor ladies, but honestly wore there owne clothes. Mowley, Search for Money (1609). flag-feather (flag'ferner), n. A feather of a bird's wing next to the body. flaggine (flag'i-nes), n. The quality of being flaggy; laxne ; limpne . flagging1 (flag'ing), p. a. [Ppr. of flag1 , v.] Limp; drooping; languid; failing. He is the flagging'st bulrush that ere droopt With each slight mist of raine. Marston, Antonio and Mellida, I., ii. 1. Dull, flagging notes that with each other jar. Words worth, Sonnets, i. 10. The sole means she found of reviving the flagging discourse was by asking them if they health would all stay to tea tea.