mastigote

From Ancient Greek μάστιξ (mástix, “whip, scourge”) +‎ -ote.

mastigote (plural mastigotes)

1. A single-celled microorganism that moves by means of an undulipodium, such as a flagellum, rather than using pseudopodia.

• An organism may be a mastigote throughout its life cycle, or may spend part of its life as an amoeboid cell, and part of its life as a mastigote. The term is therefore not used for classification in a taxonomic sense.

• amoeba

• mastigophore

• flagellum
• cilium