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Microscopic means of propulsion
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flagella
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flagellum \Fla*gel"lum\, n.; pl. E. Flagellums , L. Flagella . (Bot.) A young, flexible shoot of a plant; esp., the long trailing branch of a vine, or a slender branch in certain mosses. (Zo["o]l.) A long, whiplike cilium. See Flagellata . An appendage ...
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n. (plural of flagellum English)
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Usage examples of flagella.
Each was no larger than a grain of true sand, with legs or flagella so small he could only guess that they existed.
The flagella that let bacterium swim work by an arrangement which looks much like a motor, each proton extruded by the motor turns the assembly a small bit of a full rotation.
All my manipulators and flagella have gone to that big moravec heaven in the sky.
In the early years, it would often thrash about arid make motions with its flagella, but the waiting tape recorders heard no sound that could be deciphered.
I suspect in early Centauri lifeforms, the four limbs were undifferentiated, and were all used for locomotionas flagella in aquatic forms, and as legs in land-dwelling ones.
I had estimated that original monster as perhaps ten klicks long -- these zeplinlike work beasts must have been several hundred klicks long, perhaps longer when one factored in the countless tentacles, tendrils, flagella, whips, tails, probes, and proboscises the things sported.