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from The Century Dictionary.
- Provided with a flagellum at each extremity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective biology, of bacteria Having a single
flagellum on each of two opposite ends. (Only one flagellum operates at a time, allowing the bacterium to reverse course rapidly by switching which flagellum is active.)
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