blepharoplastn.

1897 H. J. Webber in Bot. Gaz. Oct. 233 I would..suggest the name blepharoplast to distinguish them from other organs of the cell.

1908 Practitioner Feb. 227 Flagellated forms [possess] a nucleus and blepharoplast.

1964 M. Hynes Med. Bacteriol. (ed. 8) xxviii. 433 In the anterior half of the cell (Trichomonas vaginalis) are the nucleus and the blepharoplast from which arises a cluster of four flagella of equal length.

1907 D. Nabarro tr. Laveran & Mesnil Trypanosomes iii. 52 In view of the meaning attributed to the word blepharoplast by Webber, who introduced it..the Geisselwurzl [of a flagellum] is a blepharoplast.

1912 E. A. Minchin Introd. Study Protozoa vi. 89 The ring of blepharoplasts in Lophomonas is supported on the edge of a membranous structure,..which in its turn is surrounded by a peculiar striated body, the ‘collar’ of Grassi, or ‘parabasal apparatus’ of Janicki.

1925 Manson's Trop. Dis. (ed. 8) 636 This composite body is known as the kinetoplast, and is composed of a minute blepharoplast, or basal body, and a parabasal body.

1940 L. H. Hyman Invertebrates I. iii. 109 The basal granule is accompanied by another granule, variously called blepharoplast, kinetoplast, kinetonucleus, etc.

1961 D. L. Mackinnon & R. S. J. Hawes Introd. Study Protozoa ii. 71 Asexual reproduction is universal [among the Mastigophora]... The basal granule (blepharoplast or kinetosome) of the flagellum divides, and it frequently acts as a centriole.

1974 W. V. Brown & E. M. Bertke Textbk. Cytol. (ed. 2) xiii. 273/2 At the base of the shaft of a cilium or flagellum but within the cell itself is the basal body... This structure is called the kinetosome by protozoologists or the blepharoplast by some phycologists.

1986 M. Kogut tr. H. G. Schlegel Gen. Microbiol. v. 155 The flagella conform to the typical eukaryotic model; they originate from a blepharoplast in the cytoplasm.