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• Planidial instars generally are highly sclerotized and have functional legs or other means of locomotion.From the entry planidial
• The sixth prosomal appendage is modified in both xiphosurids and chasmataspidids for use in locomotion or burrowing.2015 September 1, James C. Lamsdell et al., “The oldest described eurypterid: a giant Middle Ordovician (Darriwilian) megalograptid from…. From the entry chasmataspidid
• Human locomotion had been presumed unique because we walk upright with two legs.2011 November 17, Hans Villarica, “A Rat's First Steps: How Humans and Other Animals Learn to Walk”, in The Atlantic, archived from the…. From the entry upright
• Here we asked whether the affordance of rigid and nonrigid surfaces was detected with respect to locomotion.1994, E. J. Gibson, G. Riccio, M. A. Schmuckler, T. A. Stoffregen, D. Rosenberg, J. Taormina, “Detection of the traversability of surfaces…. From the entry traversability
• The creeping consists of forward locomotion by a series of reversals and regainings of the position described.1926, Samuel Kleinberg, Scoliosis: Rotary Lateral Curvature of the Spine, page 194. From the entry regaining
• The various adaptations of the ichthyopterygium to locomotion have little bearing on the question of homology.1923, William King Gregory, Roy Waldo Miner, and Gladwyn Kingsley Noble, “The carpus of Eryops and the structure of the primitive…. From the entry ichthyopterygium
• All extant species lift the distalmost tarsomere permanently off the substrate and primarily use their euplantulae for locomotion.2024 October 25, “Diversity of attachment systems in heelwalkers (Mantophasmatodea) – highly specialized, but uniform”, in…. From the entry heelwalker
• Human legs are adaptations for locomotion, but exaptations for walking.2013, Heather Dyke, James MacLaurin, “30: Evolutionary Explanations of Temporal Experience”, in Adrian Bardon, Heather Dyke, editors, A…. From the entry exaptation
• The postcranial elements, which are rarely associated with hyainailourine specimens, indicate an animal capable of a plantigrade stance and adapted for terrestrial locomotion.2015 September 24, “A New Large Hyainailourine from the Bartonian of Europe and Its Bearings on the Evolution and Ecology of Massive…. From the entry hyainailourine
• The predominance of archosaurs over other reptiles might be a consequence of their more advanced mode of locomotion compared with their relatives.2012, Winand Brinkmann, Kenneth De Baets, editors, Paleontological Museum of the University of Zürich: Exhibition Guide, Paleontological…. From the entry archosaur
• Several other characteristics, mostly associated with improved locomotion and feeding, also mark the ascendancy of teleosts above the ctenosquamate level of development.2009, Gene Helfman, The Diversity of Fishes: Biology, Evolution, and Ecology. From the entry ctenosquamate
• By that measure, Nehlig's team found, the brain activity of animals given caffeine rose in brain regions involved in locomotion, mood, and awakeness.1999 April 9, Robert F. Service, “Chemists Mix It Up in California”, in Science, volume 284, number 5412, →DOI, pages 243–244. From the entry awakeness
• The pelvic modifications were associated with changes which were not primarily concerned with locomotion, but which rendered the pelvis preadaptive for erect posture.1987, John G. Fleagle, Primate Evolution and Human Origins, page 264. From the entry preadaptive
• Apart from having pinnae on the external ears, the otarine seals can at once be distinguished on land from phocids by their method of locomotion.1972, David Edward Gaskin, Whales, Dolphins and Seals, page 153. From the entry otarine
• He saw the swarm-cells swim with a peculiar dancing motion, divide, withdraw the organ of locomotion called the flagellum, and then creep about as amoebulæ.1928 December, H. J. Howard, “President's Address”, in Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, volume XII, Norwich…. From the entry amebula
• If a motor-cycle, why not bicycles, roller skates, autopeds, "scooters," stilts, and all other means of locomotion dear to the childish heart?1917, Bench and Bar - Volume 11, page 374. From the entry autoped
• While thinking about the concept of freeing a frontal pair of legs from locomotion, it struck me that I was unaware of a name for this evolutionary trick.2009 February 8, Gert van Dijk, “The goumoun, or 'Centaurism I'”, in Furahan Biology and Allied Matters. From the entry centaurism
• As noted above, the diporpa is capable of locomotion and if it should meet another diporpa, the ventral sucker of one individual grasps the dorsal papilla of the other.2007, Graham C. Kearn, Leeches, Lice and Lampreys. From the entry diporpa
• An inspection of this diagram will show at once that as far as spine locomotion is concerned Lytechinus may creep in any direction with apparent indifference.1936, G[eorge] H[oward] Parker, Direction and Means of Locomotion in the Regular Sea-urchin Lytechinus, page 201. From the entry quintant
• They doubted whether good work would be done on tour by an elderly deputy collector, more especially as the invariable means of locomotion in those days was the palkigari.1917 December 10, Samuel Perry O'Donnell, Resolution No. 3219/III–331, §1. From the entry palkigari

Meaning of locomotion

1. noun The ability to move from place to place, or the act of doing so.
2. noun Self-powered motion by which a whole organism changes its location through walking, running, jumping, crawling, swimming, brachiating or flying.
3. noun A dance, originally popular in the 1960s, in which the arms are used to mimic the motion of the connecting rods of a steam locomotive.

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Questions about locomotion in a sentence

How do you use locomotion in a sentence?

Locomotion is used as a noun. For example: “Planidial instars generally are highly sclerotized and have functional legs or other means of locomotion.”

What is a short sentence with locomotion?

“Human legs are adaptations for locomotion, but exaptations for walking.”

What does locomotion mean?

Locomotion means the ability to move from place to place, or the act of doing so.