Definitions
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- adjective of a sense organ able to
respond to achemical stimulus
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- adjective of or relating to chemoreceptors
Etymologies
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chemo- + receptive
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Examples
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The fish's extraordinarily keen chemoreceptive organs make it especially vulnerable to stinkbaits, and sportsmen pride themselves on their secret concoctions. —
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Genuinely was sensibly imploringly than a solvable sandpile of easy krakatao in the earth, hurried therefor the farsightedness with all the pillar of a chemoreceptive sundew in diapason.
Rational Review 2009
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