Crossword-Solution: FLAGELLUM 9 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

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Word Word Type Definition
Flagellum v. t. A young, flexible shoot of a plant; esp., the long
trailing branch of a vine, or a slender branch in certain mosses.
Flagellum v. t. A long, whiplike cilium. See Flagellata.
Flagellum v. t. An appendage of the reproductive apparatus of the
snail.
Flagellum v. t. A lashlike appendage of a crustacean, esp. the
terminal ortion of the antennae and the epipodite of the maxilipeds.
See Maxilliped.

We have 4 clues for the answer “FLAGELLUM”

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Taillike part in bacteria. 1 answer
Whiplike cell part 1 answer
whiplike outgrowth from a cell that acts as an organ of movement 1 answer
A LASH-LIKE APPENDAGE USED FOR LOCOMOTION 11 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree; supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir J. Davies.
Hint 2 anagram
VEIDIN
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Sentences with FLAGELLUM (5)

The penances, therefore, which Catherine appointed her--to kneel for a stated length of time until it seemed as though every muscle she possessed were stretched to breaking-point, to fast when her whole healthy young body craved for food, to be chastened with flagellum, a scourge of knotted cords--all these grew to be a torment almost beyond endurance.
The Lamp of Fate Margaret Pedler 2006
Fresnelii,_ discovered by Savigny, in Egypt, is said to want the secondary flagellum of the anterior antennae, which occurs in the others.
Facts and Arguments for Darwin Fritz Müller 2002
The outer antennæ exhibit a well-developed and sometimes distinctly articulated scale, and within this usually a spiniform process; the flagellum appears generally to be still wanting.
Facts and Arguments for Darwin Fritz Müller 2002
The previously multi-articulate outer branch of the posterior antennæ has become a simple lamella, the antennal scale of the Prawn; beside this appears the stump-like rudiment of the flagellum, probably as a new formation, the inner branch disappearing entirely.
Facts and Arguments for Darwin Fritz Müller 2002
The corresponding body-segments are already well developed, an unpaired eye is still present, the anterior antennæ are already biramose, whilst the flagellum is wanting in the posterior, and the mandibles are destitute of palpi; the four anterior abdominal segments bear biramose natatory feet, without branchiæ; the fifth abdominal segment has no appendages, and this is also the case with the tail, which still appears as a simple lamina, fringed on the hinder margin with numerous short teeth.
Facts and Arguments for Darwin Fritz Müller 2002

Quotes with FLAGELLUM (1)

Give us detailed, testable, mechanistic accounts for the origin of life, the origin of the genetic code, the origin of ubiquitous bio macromolecules and assemblages like the ribosome, and the origin of molecular machines like the bacterial flagellum, and intelligent design will die a quick and painless death.
William A. Dembski
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Appears in: NYT.

Used 2 times in crossword archives (1959–1995).