aflagellateadj.
/ˌeɪˈfladʒᵻleɪt/, /ˌeɪˈfladʒᵻlət/, U.S. /ˌeɪˈflædʒəˌleɪt/ Microbiology.
Lacking flagella.
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1904 Jrnl. Trop. Med. 7 340/1 As the trypanosomes of mammals agglutinate with the aflagellate extremity they may perhaps be more nearly related to the spirilla.
1924 Bull. Entomol. Res. 14 273 The shorter forms are aflagellate, or almost so, and feebly undulant.
1968 Jrnl. Cell Biol. 39 96a/2 The aflagellate but motile spermatozoon of Steatococcus tuberculatus is a long, pencil-like structure.
2004 Jrnl. Infectious Dis. 189 1915/1 Aflagellate H. pylori strains only transiently colonized gnotobiotic piglets.
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