Associations to the word «Flagellate»

Wiktionary

FLAGELLATE, verb. To whip or scourge.
FLAGELLATE, adjective. Resembling a whip.
FLAGELLATE, adjective. (biology) Having flagella.
FLAGELLATE, noun. (biology) Any organism that has flagella.

Dictionary definition

FLAGELLATE, noun. A usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some are pathogens of humans and other animals.
FLAGELLATE, verb. Whip; "The religious fanatics flagellated themselves".
FLAGELLATE, adjective. Having or resembling a lash or whip (as does a flagellum).

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King