"chemotax" meaning in English

See chemotax in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: chemotaxes [present, singular, third-person], chemotaxing [participle, present], chemotaxed [participle, past], chemotaxed [past]
Etymology: Back-formation. Head templates: {{en-verb}} chemotax (third-person singular simple present chemotaxes, present participle chemotaxing, simple past and past participle chemotaxed)
  1. (intransitive) To move by means of chemotaxis Tags: intransitive Related terms: chemotaxin
    Sense id: en-chemotax-en-verb-6s5aza6n Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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