dinoflagellate

Other forms: dinoflagellates

Definitions of dinoflagellate

1. noun

   chiefly marine protozoa having two flagella; a chief constituent of plankton
   types:

   Noctiluca miliaris, noctiluca

   large bioluminescent marine protozoan

   peridinian

   flagellate with a thick test composed of plates

   type of:

   flagellate, flagellate protozoan, flagellated protozoan, mastigophoran, mastigophore

   a usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some are pathogens of humans and other animals