Adjective : motile cells; motile spores. From Dictionary.com.
Crowds are mobile, but they are also motile, that is to say, fickle. From Wordnik.com. [The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe] Reference
Unless-but of course there must be a motile stage. From Wordnik.com. [Neutron Star]
The visible motile response no longer surprised him. From Wordnik.com. [Flinx's Folly]
Unless -- but of course there must be a motile stage. From Wordnik.com. [Neutron Star]
(Fischer), motile, with one polar flagellum (monotrichous). From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
Sporozoa – organisms whose adult stage is not motile e.g. From Wordnik.com. [Parasite] Reference
And if you were a motile alien fragment, where would you go?. From Wordnik.com. [Time's Enemy]
A motile rodlet with one cilium and with a spore formed inside. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
"Is the nervous material any different from the motile form's brain?". From Wordnik.com. [Neutron Star]
None of this unstable, motile horror caused the Drounge any discomfort. From Wordnik.com. [A Triumph of Souls]
(Ehrenb.), more strongly curved in open spirals, motile, lophotrichous. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
We were still half an hour out when we saw the first of the motile isles. From Wordnik.com. [Prayers To Broken Stones]
They are provided with two cilia, closely resembling the motile cells of the. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference
I believe my mental imagery is more motile (of movement) than anything else. From Wordnik.com. [Power of Mental Imagery Being the Fifth of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency] Reference
If a man has 10 million motile sperm per milliliter, he's probably good to go. From Wordnik.com. [Health: Can a Man Make a Baby?] Reference
These simple plants may be seen as actively moving cells or as non-motile cells. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887] Reference
Independent movement is effected by special motile organs, the cilia or flagella. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
A culture medium is placed over the semen allowing healthy motile sperm to swim up to it. From Wordnik.com. [Reproductive Technology, New (NRT).] Reference
This secretion consists of active motile spermatozoa, of spermatic granules and of mucus. From Wordnik.com. [The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction Also Sexual Hygiene with Special Reference to the Male] Reference
The motile peekaboo effect that resulted turned a number of heads as they entered the mess. From Wordnik.com. [Cachalot]
This was normal, since all motile visitors possessed a means for communicating among themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Carnivores of Light and Darkness]
Working smoothly they began packing a motile with personal belongings and other last-minute items. From Wordnik.com. [Voyage To The City Of The Dead]
Symbols and signs on shrouds and motile disks testified to the importance of the bodies they bore. From Wordnik.com. [The Chronicles of Riddick]
Soon he could identify them as akin to the radio noise associated with the functioning of a motile. From Wordnik.com. [Explorations]
Entire parts could be taken from the body of a motile, needing little or no reshaping for One to use. From Wordnik.com. [Explorations]
It wasn't even one of the motile isles we had heard about, just another volcanic peak near the equator. From Wordnik.com. [Prayers To Broken Stones]
Alternatively, a swim-up technique is applied to fresh semen by which only the most motile sperm are collected. From Wordnik.com. [Reproductive Technology, New (NRT).] Reference
"If so -" His overt signal trailed off, but the thought continued in all their partly linked minds: A motile that big!. From Wordnik.com. [Explorations]
A jellyfish is considered an individual animal because it appears to be a distinct and motile organism that feeds by ingestion. From Wordnik.com. [Individuals, societies, and the classification of organisms] Reference
A flock of flying foxes was flapping from east to west over the harbor, a dark motile cloud scattered among towering white cumulus. From Wordnik.com. [Dirge]
It was a prospect which Araminta considered so soul-crushing she would have hired out as a love slave to a Prime motile in order to escape. From Wordnik.com. [The Dreaming Void]
It was previously believed that only primary cilia, which are much less abundant than motile cilia, could sense their external environment. From Wordnik.com. [Why School Closures May Not Ward Off Flu] Reference
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