- locomotory
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adjective
Date: circa 1836
1. locomotor <locomotory appendages> 2. capable of moving independently from place to place <locomotory animals>
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locomotory
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locomotory — SYN: locomotor. * * * lo·co·mo·to·ry .lō kə mōt ə rē adj 1) LOCOMOTOR <parasites without locomotory organs> 2) capable of moving independently from place to place <small locomotory animals> … Medical dictionary
locomotory — locomotion ► NOUN ▪ movement or the ability to move from one place to another. DERIVATIVES locomotory adjective. ORIGIN from Latin loco from a place + motio motion … English terms dictionary
locomotory — adjective Of or pertaining to locomotion … Wiktionary
locomotory — adj. pertaining to movement, able to move from one place to another, mobile … English contemporary dictionary
locomotory — lo·co·mo·to·ry … English syllables
locomotory — adjective see locomotor II … Useful english dictionary
animal — animalic /an euh mal ik/, animalian /an euh may lee euhn, mayl yeuhn/, adj. /an euh meuhl/, n. 1. any member of the kingdom Animalia, comprising multicellular organisms that have a well defined shape and usually limited growth, can move… … Universalium
protist — protistan /proh tis teuhn/, adj., n. protistic, adj. /proh tist/, n. any of various one celled organisms, classified in the kingdom Protista, that are either free living or aggregated into simple colonies and that have diverse reproductive and… … Universalium
skeleton — skeletonless, adj. skeletonlike, adj. /skel i tn/, n. 1. Anat., Zool. the bones of a human or an animal considered as a whole, together forming the framework of the body. 2. any of various structures forming a rigid framework in an invertebrate.… … Universalium
chordate — /kawr dayt/, Zool. adj. 1. belonging or pertaining to the phylum Chordata, comprising the true vertebrates and those animals having a notochord, as the lancelets and tunicates. n. 2. a chordate animal. [1885 90; see CHORDATA] * * * Any member of… … Universalium
