MASTIGOPHORAN

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Meaning:

A usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some are pathogens of humans and other animals

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("mastigophoran" is a kind of...):

protozoan; protozoon (any of diverse minute acellular or unicellular organisms usually nonphotosynthetic)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mastigophoran"):

dinoflagellate (chiefly marine protozoa having two flagella; a chief constituent of plankton)

genus Leishmania; Leishmania (flagellate protozoan that causes leishmaniasis)

zooflagellate; zoomastigote (flagellate protozoan lacking photosynthesis and other plant-like characteristics)

hypermastigote (flagellate symbiotic in the intestines of e.g. termites)

polymastigote (flagellates with several flagella)

costia; Costia necatrix (a flagellate that is the cause of the frequently fatal fish disease costiasis)

giardia (a suspected cause of diarrhea in humans)

trichomonad (cause of trichomoniasis in women and cattle and birds)

Holonyms ("mastigophoran" is a member of...):

class Flagellata; class Mastigophora; Flagellata; Mastigophora (protozoa having flagella)