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chemoreceptor

noun

Etymology

From chemo- + receptor.

  1. derived from receptōrius
  2. derived from receptour
  3. inherited from receptour
  4. prefixed as chemoreceptor — “chemo + receptor”

Definitions

  1. a sense organ, or one of its cells (such as those for the sense of taste or smell), that…

    a sense organ, or one of its cells (such as those for the sense of taste or smell), that can respond to a chemical stimulus; a chemosensor

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for chemoreceptor. 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