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odortaxis

noun

Etymology

From odor + taxis.

  1. learned borrowing from τάξις
  2. compounded as odortaxis — “odor + taxis”

Definitions

  1. The movement of an organism with respect to, usually towards, a volatile airborne…

    The movement of an organism with respect to, usually towards, a volatile airborne chemical.

    • These cells may be activated by physical deformation of the cuticle or chemical stimuli that reach a ciliated dendrite via the opening (e.g., neurons involved in chemotaxis and odortaxis behavior, or nose-touch response)

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for odortaxis. 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