qū​xìng

taxis

  • created sense approved 趋性/趨性 · qū​xìng · taxis — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    趋性 / 趨性

    qū​xìng

    taxis

    an involuntary movement of an organism in response to an external stimulus; tropism

    趋 (literal) → 趋/趨 · qū · to tend toward 性 (bound) → 性 · xìng · [-ity]

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense