Synonyms & related words for telotaxis

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Words related to telotaxis

Explore words related to telotaxis — words associated with it, words that go with it, and its nearest matches in meaning. Related words include chemotropism, chemotropic, tropotaxis, haptotropism, aerotaxis, halophobe, endotrophic, geotaxis. Click any word to make it the center of the map and keep exploring the web of connections.

Where does telotaxis come from?

The word telotaxis breaks down into 3 roots of Greek origin: tel, from Greek telos (“end, goal, completion”); o, from Greek o (“connecting vowel”); and -taxis, from Greek taxis (“arrangement, ordered movement (from tassein 'to arrange')”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.