Usually means: Orientation or movement toward gravity.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. geotaxis: Merriam-Webster
  2. geotaxis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. geotaxis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. geotaxis: Collins English Dictionary
  5. geotaxis: Wordnik
  6. geotaxis: Wiktionary
  7. geotaxis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. geotaxis: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. geotaxis: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. geotaxis: Dictionary.com
  11. geotaxis: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  12. geotaxis: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. geotaxis: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. geotaxis: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. geotaxis: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. geotaxis: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (geotaxis)

▸ noun:  (biology) A living creature's ability to move by orienting itself by gravitational forces.
▸ noun:  (biology) A downward movement.

Similar:
geotropism, geomenotaxis, telotaxis, mechanotaxis, magnetotaxis, osmotaxis, klinotaxis, biotaxis, haptotaxis, chemotaxis, more...

Opposite:
phototaxis, heliotropism

Types:
positive, negative, taxis, more...

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Similar:
geotropism, geomenotaxis, telotaxis, mechanotaxis, magnetotaxis, osmotaxis, klinotaxis, biotaxis, haptotaxis, chemotaxis, more...

Opposite:
phototaxis, heliotropism

Types:
positive, negative, taxis, more...



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