A small flagellum; a diminutive or short whip-like appendage.
From Latin flagellum (whip) + -ula (diminutive suffix), literally 'little whip.'
The diminutive form shows how Latin allows scientists to talk about size grades—flagellum is the whip, flagellula is the tiny whip, creating a family of related terms from one root.
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