Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of numerous minute, chiefly marine protozoans of the order Dinoflagellata, characteristically having two flagella and a cellulose covering and forming one of the chief constituents of plankton. They include bioluminescent forms and forms that produce red tide.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to or having the characters of the Dinoflagellata; cilioflagellate, in the usual sense of that word.
Wiktionary
- n. Any of many marine protozoa, of the phylum Dinoflagellata, that have two flagella
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a member of the Dinoflagellata, chiefly marine protozoa having two flagella. The dinoflagellates form a chief constituent of plankton.
WordNet 3.0
- n. chiefly marine protozoa having two flagella; a chief constituent of plankton
Etymologies
- Ancient Greek δῖνος ("whirling") + flagellate (Wiktionary)
- From New Latin Dīnoflagellāta, class name : Greek dīnos, whirling (from dīnein, to whirl) + Latin flagellum, flagellum; see flagellum. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The red tide in San Diego this fall was caused by a bloom of billions of a microscopic organism called a dinoflagellate, said Peter J. S. Franks, a professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography there.”
“The researchers studied the behavior of the algal cell Karlodinium veneficum, known as a dinoflagellate and found in estuaries worldwide.”
“Karlodinium veneficum, known as a dinoflagellate and found in estuaries worldwide.”
“Ciguatera poisoning from fish is caused by a neurotoxin (ciguatoxin) present in the dinoflagellate, Gambierdiscus toxicus. 13 The toxin is passed through the food chain and becomes concentrated in larger fish (greater thanthree kilograms) such as the kingfish and the sturgeon.”
“I also performed research on dinoflagellate luciferin and luminous scale worms.”
“It isnt my fault it went over your head because you are too stupid to know what a dinoflagellate is”
“At your intellectual level perhaps you can aim for dinoflagellate or plankton.”
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“Edit if you go one step further and just say there is the “animal” kind, and the “plant” kind, which would a dinoflagellate with chlorophyll be?”
“Paleotemperature reconstructions based upon dinoflagellate cyst assemblages indicate strong seasonal temperature fluctuations, with markedly cold winter temperatures [12].”
Late-Quaternary changes in arctic terrestrial ecosystems, climate, and ultraviolet radiation levels
“There are marked changes in the abundance of certain dinoflagellate species.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dinoflagellate’.
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• De rerum natura
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Interesting words in nature and natural science (in any language!).
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You can add species names that you lov...lagerstätte, parthenogenesis, bushbaby, lepidoptera, dinoflagellate, pupation, chrysalis, ephemeroptera, deinococcus radio..., homoplasy, sciophilous, syncytium and 218 more...
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Things that might glow in the dark
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Learned (or Encountered) in Reading
I have a list for words learned from Newsweek; here's where I keep all the stuff from other shit I read.
Except when I'm looking stuff up and find new words that way. Those go on their...cellie, laminectomy, mridangam, terroir, hypospadias, crus, corpora cavernosa, crura, uretheral meatus, bartholin's gland, coloquintida, colopexy and 921 more...
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biologic
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pantaloons, schadenfreude, astonishing, eve, static, freeze, luscious, voluptuous, stagnant, mimic, speed, vespertillinoid and 302 more...
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Critters
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quark, quark, quark!
science words that are fun to say
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with both Latin and Greek components
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chained_bear Seen here, part of a theory that dinoflagellates caused the Biblical plague of Egypt in which the Nile ran red. Apr 13, 2009