Definition of locomotory in English:
locomotory
adjective ləʊkəˈməʊtəriˌlōkəˈmōdərē
Zoology Relating to or having the power of locomotion.
Example sentencesExamples
- Several recent studies have examined the interrelationships of tetrapods in global analyses and are crucial to considerations of the origins of locomotory features in amniotes.
- If so, the oldest traces of locomotory activities of the metazoans should be connected with their infaunal life.
- The epidermis is cellular and does not possess any locomotory cilia.
- The Ecdysozoa, all of which molt and lack motile locomotory cilia, include priapulids, kinorhynchs, nematodes, nematomorphs, tardigrades, onychophorans, and arthropods.
- The ‘quilt’ itself was probably the collagenous basement membrane of a dorsal unit acting both as a hydraulic skeleton and muscular locomotory organ perhaps analogous to the set of myomeres in chordates.