Peritrichous

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having flagella around the body or around the mouth
Adjective
  1. 1
    covered all over with uniformly distributed flagella wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
covered

Etymology

From peri- + tricho- + -ous.

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