Flagellum1. (n.) A young, flexible shoot of a plant; esp., the long trailing branch of a vine, or a slender branch in certain mosses.
2. (n.) A long, whiplike cilium. See Flagellata.
3. (n.) An appendage of the reproductive apparatus of the snail.
4. (n.) A lashlike appendage of a crustacean, esp. the terminal portion of the antennae and the epipodite of the maxillipeds. See Maxilliped.
Thesaurus Entries
Golgi apparatus, animal fiber, artificial fiber, aster, basal body, belt, bine, blacksnake, bough, branch, branchedness, branchiness, bullwhack, bullwhip, burgeon, capillament, cat, cell membrane, central apparatus, central body, centriole, centroplasm, centrosome, centrosphere, chloroplast, chromoplast, cilia, cilium, cirrus, cobweb, cowhide, crop, cytocentrum, deadwood, denier, fiber, fibrilla, filament, filamentule, flagella, fork, frond, gossamer, hair, hank, horsewhip, kinoplasm, knout, kurbash, lash, limb, microbody, microcentrum, mitochondrion, offshoot, pili, plasmodesmata, plastid, plastosome, quirt, ramage, ramification, rawhide, razor strap, ribosome, runner, sarment, scion, scourge, shoot, sjambok, skein, slip, spear, spherosome, spindle fibers, spray, sprig, sprit, sprout, stolon, strand, strap, sucker, suture, switch, tendril, thallus, thong, thread, threadlet, twig, vacuole, web, whip, whiplash