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FLAGELLA Antonyms

There are 10 antonyms of the word flagella. (opposite meanings)

Best Opposite Words For FLAGELLA

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fur
nounn
noun

• the dressed hairy coat of a mammal

• dense coat of fine silky hairs on mammals (e.g., cat or seal or weasel)

• a garment made of animal pelts or synthetic fur

plumage
nounn
noun

• the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds

whiskers
nounn
noun

• the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face

barbs
nounn
noun

• an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect

• the pointed part of barbed wire

• a subsidiary point facing opposite from the main point that makes an arrowhead or spear hard to remove

• one of the parallel filaments projecting from the main shaft of a feather

verb

• provide with barbs

bristles
nounn
noun

• a stiff fiber (coarse hair or filament); natural or synthetic

• a stiff hair

verb

• be in a state of movement or action

• rise up as in fear

• have or be thickly covered with or as if with bristles

• react in an offended or angry manner

cilia
nounn
noun

• Hairs or similar protrusions along the margin of a plant organ.

• A hairlike organelle projecting from a eukaryotic cell (such as a unicellular organism or one cell of a multicelled organism). These structures serve either for locomotion by moving or as sensors.

• One of the fine hairs along an insect's wing.

filaments
nounn
noun

• a very slender natural or synthetic fiber

• the stalk of a stamen

• a threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells)

• a thin wire (usually tungsten) that is heated white hot by the passage of an electric current

hairs
nounn
noun

• a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss

• a very small distance or space

• filamentous hairlike growth on a plant

• any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal

• cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments

• a filamentous projection or process on an organism

spines
nounn
noun

• the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord

• any sharply pointed projection

• a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf

• the part of a book's cover that encloses the inner side of the book's pages and that faces outward when the book is shelved

• a sharp rigid animal process or appendage; as a porcupine quill or a ridge on a bone or a ray of a fish fin

tendrils
nounn
noun

• slender stem-like structure by which some twining plants attach themselves to an object for support

Alternatives for FUR

Alternatives for PLUMAGE

Alternatives for WHISKERS

Alternatives for BARBS

Alternatives for BRISTLES

Alternatives for CILIA

Alternatives for FILAMENTS

Alternatives for HAIRS

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