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peritrichous

peritrichous adjective: having flagella around the body or around the mouth.

Adjective

peritrichous (comparative more peritrichous, superlative most peritrichous)

  1. Having flagella around the body or around the mouth

peritrichous meaning in Tamil

peritrichous in Tamil

புறச்சுற்று

Forms of peritrichous

comparativemore peritrichous
superlativemost peritrichous

Origin of peritrichous

From peri- + tricho- + -ous.

Words formed from peritrichous

Questions about peritrichous

What does peritrichous mean?
Peritrichous means having flagella around the body or around the mouth.
What is peritrichous in Tamil?
Peritrichous in Tamil is புறச்சுற்று. See Peritrichous meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is peritrichous?
Peritrichous is an adjective.

Words near peritrichous in the dictionary

  1. peritrematic
  2. peritreme
  3. peritremes
  4. peritrich
  5. peritrichious
  6. peritrichous
  7. peritrichously
  8. peritrichs
  9. peritrigonal
  10. peritrochanteric
  11. peritrochia

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Adapted from Wiktionary: peritrichous (page history and authors); peritrichous (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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