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multireceptive

multireceptive adjective: that receive stimuli from multiple sources.

Adjective

multireceptive (not comparable)

  1. (typically of neurons) That receive stimuli from multiple sources

Origin of multireceptive

From multi- + receptive.

Questions about multireceptive

What does multireceptive mean?
Multireceptive means that receive stimuli from multiple sources.
What part of speech is multireceptive?
Multireceptive is an adjective.

Words near multireceptive in the dictionary

  1. multireactive
  2. multireactivity
  3. multiread
  4. multireads
  5. multireceiver
  6. multireceptive
  7. multireceptor
  8. multirecipient
  9. multireed
  10. multireedist
  11. multireedists

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