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flagellates

vb. (en-third-person singular of: flagellate)

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Fourteen species of autotrophic nannoflagellates, twenty heterotrophic flagellates, forty heterotrophic dinoflagellates, and several metazoans, including polychaetes, amphipods, copepods, euphausids, and fish.

A believer who flagellates or 'macerates' himself to-day arouses more wonder and fear than emulation.