Usually means: Tail-like structure, enables movement.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word flagellum:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. flagellum: Merriam-Webster
  2. flagellum: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. flagellum: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. flagellum: Collins English Dictionary
  5. flagellum: Vocabulary.com
  6. Flagellum, flagellum: Wordnik
  7. Flagellum, Flagellum: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  8. flagellum: Wiktionary
  9. flagellum: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. flagellum: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. flagellum: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. flagellum: Dictionary.com
  13. Flagellum: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Flagellum: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. flagellum: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. flagellum: Rhymezone
  17. Flagellum: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. flagellum: FreeDictionary.org
  19. flagellum: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. flagellum: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flagellum: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. flagellum: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  5. flagellum: Medical dictionary

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. flagellum: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bryological (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)
  5. flagellum: Natural History Terms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flagellum: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flagellum: Canadian Soil Information System

(Note: See flagella as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (flagellum)

noun:  (biology) In protists, a long, whiplike membrane-enclosed organelle used for locomotion or feeding.
noun:  (biology) In bacteria, a long, whiplike proteinaceous appendage, used for locomotion.
noun:  A whip

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