Motile

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Biology Moving or having the power to move spontaneously: motile spores.
  • adj. Psychology Of or relating to mental imagery that arises primarily from sensations of bodily movement and position rather than from visual or auditory sensations.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. having the power to move spontaneously
  • adj. of or relating to those mental images that arise from the sensations of bodily movement and position
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Exhibiting, or capable of, spontaneous movement
  • adj. Producing motion.
  • n. A person whose prevailing mental imagery takes the form of inner feelings of action, such as incipient pronunciation of words, muscular innervations, etc.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Capable of spontaneous motion; executing automatic or apparently voluntary movements: as, a motile flagellum; motile cilia, spores, etc.
  • n. One in whose mind motor images are predominant or especially distinct.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. one whose prevailing mental imagery takes the form of inner feelings of action
  • adj. (of spores or microorganisms) capable of movement
  • Equivalent
    mobile   
    Antonym
    sessile   
    Hypernym
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    percipient    beholder    observer    perceiver   
    Synonym
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    anecdotal    immotile    total   
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