1. A usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some are pathogens of humans and other animals
   "Giardia is a mastigophore that can cause intestinal infections";
   - flagellate, flagellate protozoan, flagellated protozoan, mastigophoran

Derived forms: mastigophores

Type of: protozoan, protozoon

Part of: class Flagellata, class Mastigophora, Flagellata, Mastigophora