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Definition of Nonmotile
1. Adjective. (of spores or microorganisms) not capable of movement.
Category relationships: Micro-organism, Microorganism
Similar to: Immobile
Derivative terms: Immotility
Definition of Nonmotile
1. Adjective. Not motile ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nonmotile
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonmotile
Literary usage of Nonmotile
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. In-Situ Bioremediation of Ground Water and Geological Material: A Review of ...by Robert D. Norris by Robert D. Norris (1995)
"Furthermore, nonmotile strains of E. coli which produced gas penetrated
nutrient-saturated cores about 5 to 6 times faster than mutant ..."
2. Infection and Resistance: An Exposition of the Biological Phenomena by Hans Zinsser (1918)
"When rabbits were immunized with the nonmotile bacillus an agglutinin was ...
Contact with* the nonmotile bacillus did not deprive the serum produced with ..."
3. Practical Bacteriology, Blood Work and Animal Parasitology: Including by Edward Rhodes Stitt (1920)
"Migula calls motile rod-shaped organisms bacilli, and nonmotile ones bacteria.
Lehmann and Neumann call spore-bearing organisms bacilli, ..."
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