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Answer for the clue "Single-celled organism with a flagellum ", 7 letters:
euglena

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Word definitions for euglena in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. minute single-celled green freshwater organism having a single flagella; often classed as algae

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context biology English) Any of several protists, of the genus (taxlink Euglena genus noshow=1), that contain chloroplasts and a single flagellum

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
''' Euglena is a genus of single-celled flagellate Eukaryotes . It is the best known and most widely studied member of the class Euglenoidea , a diverse group containing some 54 genera and at least 800 species. Species of Euglena are found in fresh and ...

Usage examples of euglena.

There was at last only one single Euglena, half-plant cousin of the protos, forging along beside the spaceship into the marches of the shallows.

And above the icy jungle of the ground level there grew—in successive, increasingly airy stories—skeletal, weblike structures: cocoons, nests, club moss, euglenas, gills pulled from the bodies of fish but still pulsing, because everything, in a constant drizzle, crept and coiled.