Usually means: Whip-like appendage, aids movement.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word flagellate:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. flagellate: Merriam-Webster
  2. flagellate, flagellate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. flagellate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. flagellate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. flagellate: Vocabulary.com
  6. flagellate: Wordnik
  7. flagellate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. flagellate: Wiktionary
  9. flagellate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. flagellate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. flagellate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. flagellate: Dictionary.com
  13. Flagellate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Flagellate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. flagellate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. flagellate: Rhymezone
  17. Flagellate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. flagellate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. flagellate: FreeDictionary.org
  20. flagellate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. flagellate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. flagellate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flagellate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flagellate: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flagellate: A Word A Day

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tree of Life Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Flagellate: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

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

(Note: See flagellated as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (flagellate)

verb:  (transitive) To whip or scourge.
verb:  (transitive) Of a spermatozoon, to move its tail back and forth.
adjective:  Resembling a whip.
adjective:  (biology) Having flagella.
noun:  (biology) Any organism that has flagella.

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