flagellate

Adjective

• having or resembling a lash or whip (as does a flagellum)

Noun

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

Verb

• whip
  • The religious fanatics flagellated themselves
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  flagellated , whiplike , lash-like , flagellate protozoan , flagellated protozoan , mastigophoran , mastigophore , scourge