mastig-, mastigo- +
(Greek: whip, flog, scourge)
mastigophobia
An excessive dread of being flogged (whipped or beaten).
Mastigophora
The flagellates, a subphylum of Protozoa having one or more locomotory flagella.
mastigophoric
1. Referring to someone carrying or wielding a whip.
2. In biology, with reference to a cell having a flagellum (a long thin tapering outgrowth of the cells of many microorganisms; such as, protozoans used as a means of locomotion).
mastigophorous
Referring, or pertaining, to the subphylum Mastigophora (a subphylum of protozoa, phylum Sarcomastigophora, comprising the flagellates.
Mastigoproctus
A genus of whip scorpions.
tetramastigote
1. Having four flagella.
2. An organism having four flagella (whips or long, threadlike appendages, especially whip-like extensions of certain cells or unicellular organisms that function as organs of locomotion).
trimastigote
Having three flagella, as observed in certain protozoan organisms.
Zoomastigina
Zooflagellates; phylum of Protoctista comprising unicellular heterotrophic organisms possessing at least one flagellum, often more; may be free-living or parasitic.
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