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mastigopods

mastigopods is the plural of mastigopod.

Meaning of mastigopod

Noun

mastigopod (plural mastigopods)

  1. (obsolete) A member of the Mastigopoda (protozoans which possess cilia or flagella).
    • After swimming about for a while, these mastigopods draw in their flagella, and become creeping myxopods.1888, Thomas Henry Huxley, A Manual of the Anatomy of Invertebrated Animals, page 77

Questions about mastigopods

What is mastigopods the plural of?
Mastigopods is the plural of mastigopod.

Words near mastigopods in the dictionary

  1. mastigophore
  2. mastigophores
  3. mastigophoric
  4. mastigophorous
  5. mastigopod
  6. mastigopods
  7. mastigote
  8. mastigotes
  9. mastigoteuthid
  10. mastigoteuthids
  11. mastigure

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