Mastigophoric
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Mastigophoric is an adjective meaning Carrying or wielding a whip.
Meaning
Carrying or wielding a whip.
More Meanings
- (biology, of a cell) Having a flagellum.
Example Sentences
Mastigophoric infections, including Giardia lamblia and Trichomonas vaginalis, are endemic and common diagnoses even in the higher socioeconomic strata of developed nations.
The remonstraces of Squire Headlong, silence the disputants, but did not mollify the inflexible Galle, nor appease the irritated Nightshade, who secretly resolved that, on his return to London, he would beat his drum in Grub Street, form a mastigophoric corps of his own, and hoist the standard of determined opposition against this critical Napoleon.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include whip-tailed, criophorous, fanged, zoophoric, side-whiskered, dorsigerous.
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