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adj. - (of spores or microorganisms) not capable of movement.

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Usage examples (8)
  • Adjective : motile cells; motile spores
  • That was the only evidence of nonmotile predation occurring in their immediate vicinity.
  • Many species exhibit oogamy, a type of anosogamy in which a flagellated sperm fertilizes a nonmotile egg.
  • The fliD mutant strain was completely nonmotile, indicating that these abnormal flagella were functionally defective.
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