chemotaxis

1. 1.

   movement by a cell or organism in reaction to a chemical stimulus

   Broadertaxis

   Narrowernegative chemotaxispositive chemotaxis

Other forms of chemotaxis

plural

chemotaxises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about chemotaxis

What does chemotaxis mean?

chemotaxis means "movement by a cell or organism in reaction to a chemical stimulus".

How many syllables are in chemotaxis?

chemotaxis has 4 syllables: che-mo-tax-is. The stress falls on "mo".

Is chemotaxis a common word?

chemotaxis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.