- flagellate, flagellate protozoan, flagellated protozoan, mastigophoran, mastigophore - usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some pathogens of humans and other animals
--1 is a kind of protozoan, protozoon
--1 is a member of
--1 has particulars:Mastigophora, class Mastigophora, Flagellata, class Flagellata dinoflagellate; Leishmania, genus Leishmania; zoomastigote, zooflagellate; hypermastigote; polymastigote; costia, Costia necatrix; giardia; trichomonad