Definition of immotile in English:
immotile
adjective ɪˈməʊtʌɪli(m)ˈmōdl
Biology Not motile.
Example sentencesExamples
- A small number of the mutants in this class produced sperm that appeared immotile; most produced reasonable quantities of motile sperm.
- Many of these immotile spermatids are dislodged from the spermatheca and swept away as oocytes parade through the reproductive tract.
- Due to the flagellation constraint, the cost of reproduction (in terms of the amount of time spent in an immotile stage) increases with increasing colony size.
- He showed that the amoeba Pelomyxa became immotile upon illumination, whereas the photosynthetic alga Euglena was attracted to light.
- The immotile cilia lack the motor protein dynein, which is essential for their movement.