flagellate

verb

1. (transitive)To whip or scourge.

   “Red welts rising from a flagellated back”

2. (idiomatic, transitive)To harshly chide or chastise, to reprimand.
3. (transitive)Of a spermatozoon, to move its tail back and forth.

   “The gigantic egg sits, and the frantic and tiny sperm flagellates its tail to cross vast distances on its quest for dissolution in the huge egg.”

adj

1. Resembling a whip.
2. Having flagella.

noun

1. Any organism that has flagella.