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DINOFLAGELLATE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Chiefly marine protozoa having two flagella; a chief constituent of plankton

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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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