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Definition of Immotile
1. Adjective. (of spores or microorganisms) not capable of movement.
Category relationships: Micro-organism, Microorganism
Similar to: Immobile
Derivative terms: Immotility
Definition of Immotile
1. Adjective. Not motile (lacking the ability to move) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Immotile
1. lacking mobility [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Immotile
Literary usage of Immotile
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essentials of Bacteriology: Being a Concise and Systematic Introduction to by Michael Valentine Ball, Paul Garfield Weston (1913)
"Thin rods; immotile; singly and in pairs; ends somewhat thickened; aerobic; spores.
... Smallest bacillus known; immotile. See Hemorrhagic Septi cemia. ..."
2. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1911)
"However, in the Conjugales, one of the gametes often is immotile, ... From analogy
with the higher plants, the immotile gamete may be called female and the ..."
3. Genetic Studies on a Cavy Species Cross by John Adolph Detlefsen (1914)
"(2) Hybrid males with immotile spermatozoa.—Eleven hybrids with immotile sperm
proved sterile in breeding. The number of sperm varied from a few in some ..."
4. A Manual of the Infusoria: Including a Description of All Known Flagellate by William Saville-Kent (1880)
"These dorsal appendages are, however, altogether distinct from those which clothe
the ventral aspect, being rigid and immotile and taking no part in either ..."
5. Twentieth Century Practice: An International Encyclopedia of Modern Medical by Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1900)
"Following these, we find parasites which are larger than the former, round and
immotile, with small central or peripheral masses of pig- . ment; ..."
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