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chemoreceptivity

noun

Etymology

From chemo- + receptivity.

  1. derived from *kap-<id:seize>✻ — “to hold; to seize”
  2. derived from receptus — “retaken, having been retaken; received, having been received”
  3. derived from receptivus — “capable of receiving something”
  4. inherited from receptive
  5. suffixed as receptivity — “receptive + ity”
  6. prefixed as chemoreceptivity — “chemo + receptivity”

Definitions

  1. the ability of a sense organ to respond to a chemical stimulus

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for chemoreceptivity. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA