单词 | zooflagellate |
释义 | zooflagellaten.adj. Biology. A. n. A flagellate (protist) belonging to any of several groups of unicellular organisms whose members possess one or more flagella, lack chromatophores, and do not carry out photosynthesis; an animal-like flagellate. Cf. phytoflagellate n.The term Zooflagellata has sometimes been used as a class name (e.g. by P.-P. Grassé Traité de zool. (1952) I. 574), but zooflagellates are now rarely treated as a coherent taxonomic group. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > protozoa > class Flagellata or Mastigophora > [noun] > member of mastigopod1875 flagellate1879 mastigophore1890 zooflagellate1911 mastigophoran1928 1911 Knowledge Aug. 321/ The Nannoplankton is composed of bacteria, protophytes.., and protozoa (rhizopods and zoöflagellates). 1940 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 31 182 Few zooflagellates..were observed by us. 1978 Bio Syst. 10 76/2 The motley assembly of entirely non-photosynthetic flagellates known as the zooflagellates are considered to be derivative of photosynthetic forms and do not appear to be monophyletic. 2009 G. I. Edwards & C. Pfirrmann E-Z Biol. (ed. 4) 147 Trypanosoma gambiense..is the zooflagellate that causes African sleeping sickness. B. adj. Of or relating to zooflagellates. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > protozoa > class Flagellata or Mastigophora > [adjective] > relating to member of mastigophorous1890 mastigophoric1902 mastigophoran1928 zooflagellate1956 1956 Systematic Zool. 5 134 (in figure) Unknown zooflagellate ancestry. 1976 Jrnl. Parasitol. 62 136/1 Motility..constitutes a relatively reliable indicator of viability among most zooflagellate parasites. 1997 K. D. Clements in R. I. Mackie & B. A. White Gastrointestinal Microbiology 1 vi. 172 Several unidentified zooflagellate taxa also inhabit the gut of surgeonfishes. 2011 K. Rogers Fungi, Algae, & Protists 137 Trichomonads are zooflagellate protozoans that possess three to six flagella. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1911 |
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