motile

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  1. adjective Biology Moving or having the power to move spontaneously: motile spores.
  2. adjective Psychology Of or relating to mental imagery that arises primarily from sensations of bodily movement and position rather than from visual or auditory sensations.

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  • It wasn't even one of the motile isles we had heard about, just another volcanic peak near the equator. —  Prayers to Broken Stones
  • We were still half an hour out when we saw the first of the motile isles. —  Prayers to Broken Stones
  • They're about as simple creatures as you could imagine—a kind of motile gut. —  FSF,August2004
  • This process can be as simple as a divisoin of a sporangium into individual motile, flagellated spores, or as intricate as a sexual process. —  CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
  • Water Mold is oogamous, meaning it produces large non-motile gametes called eggs, and small gametes called sperm. —  CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
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  1. Latin mōtus, motion (from past participle of movēre, to move; see motion) + -ile1.

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  1. from Latin as if *motilis, from movere, past participle motus, move: see move.
 

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/ˈmoʊtɪl/
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