silicoflagellate
(ˌsɪlɪkəʊˈflædʒəleɪt)
[f. silico- + flagellate n.]
A marine flagellate of the family Silicoflagellidæ, distinguished by a siliceous skeleton and radiating spines.
| 1906 M. Hartog in Harmer & Shipley Cambr. Nat. Hist. I. iii. 86 The Silicoflagellate family Dictyochidae..have a skeleton of a similar nature. 1961 R. D. Manwell Introd. Protozool. iii. 29 Living silicoflagellates are almost exclusively marine and pelagic in habit. 1978 Nature 16 Mar. 244/2 Apart from being an important structural component of diatoms and silicoflagellates..it [sc. silicon] is necessary for DNA polymerase activity in diatoms. |