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DINOFLAGELLATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does dinoflagellate mean?
• DINOFLAGELLATE (noun)
The noun DINOFLAGELLATE has 1 sense:
1. chiefly marine protozoa having two flagella; a chief constituent of plankton
Familiarity information: DINOFLAGELLATE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Chiefly marine protozoa having two flagella; a chief constituent of plankton
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("dinoflagellate" is a kind of...):
flagellate; flagellate protozoan; flagellated protozoan; mastigophoran; mastigophore (a usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some are pathogens of humans and other animals)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dinoflagellate"):
noctiluca; Noctiluca miliaris (large bioluminescent marine protozoan)
peridinian (flagellate with a thick test composed of plates)
Holonyms ("dinoflagellate" is a member of...):
Cilioflagellata; Dinoflagellata; order Cilioflagellata; order Dinoflagellata (in some classifications considered a phylum of the kingdom Protista; in others included in the plant phylum Pyrrophyta)
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