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chemotax

chemotax verb: to move by means of chemotaxis.

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

Forms of chemotax

third-person singular presentchemotaxes
present participlechemotaxing
past participlechemotaxed
pastchemotaxed

Origin of chemotax

Back-formation.

Questions about chemotax

What does chemotax mean?
Chemotax means to move by means of chemotaxis.
What part of speech is chemotax?
Chemotax is a verb.
What is the past tense of chemotax?
The past tense of chemotax is chemotaxed.

Words near chemotax in the dictionary

  1. chemotactical
  2. chemotactically
  3. chemotacticity
  4. chemotactile
  5. chemotactism
  6. chemotax
  7. chemotaxed
  8. chemotaxes
  9. chemotaxic
  10. chemotaxin
  11. chemotaxing

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