POSITIVE CHEMOTAXIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does positive chemotaxis mean? 

• POSITIVE CHEMOTAXIS (noun)
  The noun POSITIVE CHEMOTAXIS has 1 sense:

1. movement toward a chemical stimulus

  Familiarity information: POSITIVE CHEMOTAXIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POSITIVE CHEMOTAXIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Movement toward a chemical stimulus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("positive chemotaxis" is a kind of...):

chemotaxis (movement by a cell or organism in reaction to a chemical stimulus)