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chemotractant

chemotractant is the alternative form of chemoattractant.

chemotractant is the misspelling of chemotactant.

Meaning of chemoattractant

Noun

chemoattractant (plural chemoattractants)

  1. A substance inducing positive chemotaxis in motile cells.

Meaning of chemotactant

Adjective

chemotactant (not comparable)

  1. Synonym of chemotactic.
    Synonyms:
    chemotactic

Forms of chemotractant

pluralchemotractants

Questions about chemotractant

What is chemotractant the alternative form of?
Chemotractant is the alternative form of chemoattractant.

Words near chemotractant in the dictionary

  1. chemotoxicities
  2. chemotoxicity
  3. chemotoxin
  4. chemotoxins
  5. chemotract
  6. chemotractant
  7. chemotractants
  8. chemotracted
  9. chemotransduction
  10. chemotransductions
  11. chemotransmitter

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chemotractant (page history and authors); chemoattractant (page history and authors); chemotactant (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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