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Definition of Locomotes
1. locomote [v] - See also: locomote
Lexicographical Neighbors of Locomotes
Literary usage of Locomotes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tropical Diseases: A Manual of the Diseases of Warm Climates by Patrick Manson (1919)
"now, having become free, it moves about from place to place—locomotes, in fact.
If we dissect a mos- * This casting of its sheath by the mici ..."
2. Fraser's Magazine by Thomas Carlyle (1860)
"... thing locomotes undisturbed. But as the aim of the present sketch is to
represent some of the social characteristics of Holland, or at least to place ..."
3. The Bible in the World's Education by Henry White Warren (1892)
"It mines, pumps, drills, locomotes, but it is still machinery directing the forces
of the world which we call inert. But Christ worked with spiritual forces ..."
4. Contributions from the Bermuda Biological Station for Research by Bermuda Biological Station for Research (1916)
"Steiner's simple statement that Amphioxus locomotes 'das Kopfende voran' is
certainly too general and omits entirely any mention of the characteristic ..."
5. Walter Reed and Yellow Fever by Howard Atwood Kelly (1906)
"... the parasite did not materially change its position on the slide, but now,
having become free, it moves about from place to place— locomotes—in fact. ..."
6. Evolution: Its Nature, Its Evidences, and Its Relation to Religious Thought by Joseph LeConte (1891)
"It has no legs, but locomotes by means of a vertically- expanded tail. It has no
lungs, but breathes water instead of air, by means of gills. ..."
7. Zoölogy, Descriptive and Practical by Buel Preston Colton (1903)
"... mechanism for the operation of these parts is as described for the starfish.
How the Sea Urchin Locomotes. —The injected feet are extended and attached ..."
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