Definition of Chemosynthetic

1. Adjective. That utilizes chemosynthesis ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Chemosynthetic

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chemosynthetic

chemostasis
chemostat
chemostats
chemosterilant
chemosterilants
chemosterilizer
chemosterilizers
chemostratigraphy
chemosurgeries
chemosurgery
chemosurgical
chemosymbiosis
chemosymbiotic
chemosyntheses
chemosynthesis
chemosynthetic (current term)
chemosynthetically
chemosystematics
chemotactic
chemotactic factors
chemotactic protein methylesterase
chemotactically
chemotaxes
chemotaxis
chemotaxis methyltransferase
chemotaxonomic
chemotaxonomies
chemotaxonomist
chemotaxonomy
chemothalamectomies

Literary usage of Chemosynthetic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Physiology of Plants: A Treatise Upon the Metabolism and Sources of by Wilhelm Pfeffer (1900)
"... of chemosynthetic assimilation, nor as to the first organic products formed ; neither has it been determined whether a portion of the synthesized carbon ..."

2. Effects of the Eruptions of Mount St. Helens on Physical, Chemical, and by Douglas B. Lee (1998)
"chemosynthetic bacteria capable of growth on reduced Mn or S, or both, were particularly abundant. Viable counts of Mn-S oxidizing bacteria constituted from ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1898)
"... is exactly coincident with its absorption bands. Investigation in several lines must cooperate to solve this problem. The chemosynthetic activity of the ..."

4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1906)
"With these considerations the first volume closes. The second volume continues the treatment of chemosynthetic activity. More than two hundred pages are ..."

5. This Dynamic Earth: The Story of Plate Tectonicsby W. Jackquelyne Klous, Robert I. Tilling by W. Jackquelyne Klous, Robert I. Tilling (1996)
"Thus, the base of the deep-sea ecosystem's food chain may comprise both chemosynthetic and, probably in small proportion, photosynthetic bacteria. ..."

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