Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun hypermastigote

1 sense of hypermastigote

Sense 1
hypermastigote -- (flagellate symbiotic in the intestines of e.g. termites)
       => flagellate, flagellate protozoan, flagellated protozoan, mastigophoran, mastigophore -- (a usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some are pathogens of humans and other animals)