chemoreceptiveadj.

1927 Sci. Monthly Apr. 351/1 The fish swims forward..establishing a current through the chamber for testing the odors in the water by the chemo-receptive nerve-endings situated therein.

1945 Trans. Amer. Microsc. Soc. 64 33 There is a possibility of its [sc. a gland-like structure] being a sensory structure of some kind, perhaps with a chemoreceptive function.

1974 V. B. Mountcastle et al. Med. Physiol. (ed. 13) I. v. 152/1 The area of the postsynaptic chemoreceptive membrane can be relatively large.

2002 Functional Ecol. 16 806/1 Very little is known about the physiological characteristics of chemoreceptive hairs from C. salei and the perception of smell.