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Definition of Motile
1. Adjective. (of spores or microorganisms) capable of movement.
2. Noun. One whose prevailing mental imagery takes the form of inner feelings of action.
Definition of Motile
1. a. Having powers of self-motion, though unconscious; as, the motile spores of certain seaweeds.
2. a. Exhibiting, or capable of, spontaneous movement; as, motile cilia, motile spores, etc.
3. n. A person whose prevailing mental imagery takes the form of inner feelings of action, such as incipient pronunciation of words, muscular innervations, etc.
Definition of Motile
1. Adjective. (biology) having the power to move spontaneously ¹
2. Adjective. (psychology) of or relating to those mental images that arise from the sensations of bodily movement and position ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Motile
1. one whose mental imagery consists chiefly of inner feelings of action [n -S]
Medical Definition of Motile
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Motile
Literary usage of Motile
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Those form1 with zoospores frequently also possess sexual reproduction by the
union of equal or unequal motile gametes. All of the 10 or more families, ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"cells non-motile; growth and division in three successive planes at right ...
spirally coiled in numerous close turns, motile, but apparently owing to ..."
3. On the Physics and Physiology of Protoplasmic Streaming in Plants by Alfred James Ewart, Francis Gotch (1903)
"The Influence of Magnetic Forces on freely motile Organisms. Both aerobic and
anaerobic motile Bacteria, ciliate and flagellate Infusoria, as well as the ..."
4. Text-book of Botany: Morphological and Physiological by Julius Sachs (1875)
"Mobile and immobile condition of the motile parts of ... Their anatomical and
true experimental investigation in the normal motile condition lays the ..."
5. Genetic Studies on a Cavy Species Cross by John Adolph Detlefsen (1914)
"Two | wild males showed a few very imperfect, non-motile sperm mixed with a few
of the usual cells. Twenty-two £ wild males likewise showed sperm, ..."
6. Laboratory Directions for Beginners in Bacteriology: An Introduction to by Veranus Alva Moore (1905)
"The motile bacteria are provided with a variable number of long, hairlike appendages
or ... They are, however, elements in the structure of motile bacteria, ..."
7. Comparative Electro-physiology: A Physico-physiological Study by Jagadis Chandra Bose (1907)
"... motile organs —Increased internal energy caused by augmentation of temperature
finds expression in enhanced rate of growth ; erection of motile leaf; ..."
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