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Capable of changing location
Answer for the clue "Capable of changing location ", 6 letters:
motile
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Motile is a UK based independent record label , started in 2004, dedicated to the release of albums that combine improvisation , experimentation and/or other approaches to explore new musical territories. It is part of the Chameleon Lectra umbrella organization ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Motile \Mo"tile\, a. [See Motive .] (Biol.) Exhibiting, or capable of, spontaneous movement; as, motile bacteria, motile protozoa, motile cilia, motile spores, etc. Producing motion; as, motile powers.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context biology English) Having the power to move spontaneously. n. (context psychology English) A person whose prevailing mental imagery takes the form of inner feelings of action, such as incipient pronunciation of words, muscular innervations, etc. ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. (of spores or microorganisms) capable of movement n. one whose prevailing mental imagery takes the form of inner feelings of action
Usage examples of motile.
The motile had four legs sprouting at the end of the skin ridges on the rim of its lower torso.
The amount of produce that could be grown by a motile doubled within a decade.
During the night, iron braziers were lit, keeping the inside of the building illuminated, allowing the immotile group to keep working, instructing their motile herds, producing their nucleiplasms, and scrutinizing experiments and projects.
Its use of newly developed chemical explosives to destroy buildings, dams, and motile herds was regarded with considerable alarm.
Another five years concentrated research advanced its analog signal transmissions to a level where it could finally instruct a motile by remote.
Herds of motile soldiers, armed with explosives and rudimentary cannons, overran the two valleys it had conquered before.
With a grouping that now consisted of over three thousand individual immotiles, MorningLightMountain was easily capable of congregating enough motile herds to occupy its lands, mining and farming them in an operation as tightly controlled as the original valley.
Under direct microwave linkage with MorningLightMountain, they approached the two bipedal alien motile captives with considerable wariness.
The second, slightly smaller alien motile offered no resistance as it was dragged along behind.
The alien motile that had gone inert was placed in the large scanning unit.
Clearly in this instance, the suit polymer must require an inordinate amount of control to hold its shape, presumably far beyond the capacity of the alien motile brain to govern.
MorningLightMountain began to wonder just how far down the alien motile caste structure these particular motiles were.
The larger alien motile was hammering its clenched grippers on the wall of its pen, also emitting a lot of noise.
The motile had to move away and stand under a small shower nozzle to wash it off.
The alien motile stood up and stared at the equipment that the motiles were operating.