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

1 sense of mastigophoran

Sense 1
flagellate, flagellate protozoan, flagellated protozoan, mastigophoran, mastigophore -- (a usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some are pathogens of humans and other animals)
       => protozoan, protozoon -- (any of diverse minute acellular or unicellular organisms usually nonphotosynthetic)