chemoreceptor
noun
chemoreceptor is a noun meaning “a sense organ, or one of its cells (such as those for the sense of taste or smell), that can respond to a chemical stimulus; a chemosensor” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-H-E-M-O-R-E-C-E-P-T-O-R, and it appears about once in every 65 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of chemoreceptor is chemoreceptors.
What does chemoreceptor mean?
noun
- 1
a sense organ, or one of its cells (such as those for the sense of taste or smell), that can respond to a chemical stimulus; a chemosensor
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of chemoreceptor
- chemoreceptors plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is chemoreceptor?
Chemoreceptor appears about once in every 65 million words in written English, the 252,559th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Chemoreceptor in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense sense organ:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | quimiorreceptor |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does chemoreceptor come from?
From chemo- + receptor.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).