flagellate
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
- arrow points to the broader concept
- dashed outline: no word in this language
- Click any word to expand it.
Senses
Sense 1 noun
a usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some are pathogens of humans and other animals
Types & categories
- protozoan hypernym
- dinoflagellate hyponym
- Leishmania hyponym
- zoomastigote hyponym
- hypermastigote hyponym
- polymastigote hyponym
- costia hyponym
- giardia hyponym
- trichomonad hyponym
Parts & wholes
- Mastigophora member holonym
Related & opposite
- flagellum derivation
- flagellate derivation
Sense 2 verb
whip
The religious fanatics flagellated themselves
Types & categories
- whip hypernym
Related & opposite
- whipping derivation
- flagellum derivation
- flagellant derivation
- flagellant derivation
- flogger derivation
Sense 3 adjective
having or resembling a lash or whip (as does a flagellum)
Related & opposite
- flagellate derivation
- flagellum pertains to
- thong pertains to
- whip pertains to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | flagellum |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | flagellate |
| 1 | member holonym | Parts & wholes | Mastigophora |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | protozoan |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | dinoflagellate |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | Leishmania |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | zoomastigote |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | hypermastigote |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | polymastigote |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | costia |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | giardia |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | trichomonad |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | whipping |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | flagellum |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | flagellant |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | flagellant |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | flogger |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | whip |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | flagellate |
| 3 | pertains to | Related & opposite | flagellum |
| 3 | pertains to | Related & opposite | thong |
| 3 | pertains to | Related & opposite | whip |