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flagelliform
[ fluh-jel-uh-fawrm ]
adjective
Biology.
- long, slender, and flexible, like the lash of a whip.
flagelliform
/ ڱəˈɛɪˌɔː /
adjective
- slender, tapering, and whiplike, as the antennae of certain insects
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of flagelliform1
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Early in her career, she had cloned the Flag gene, which codes for flagelliform silk, the elastic filament that orb weavers use in the insect-capturing spirals of their webs.
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Opisthosoma consisting of only ten somites, which have no tergal and sternal elements, the prae-genital somite contracted to form a “waist,” as in the Pedipalpi; the last three narrowed to form a caudal support for the many-jointed flagelliform telson, as in the Urotricha.
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Flagelliform: whip-like; applied to a process.
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