Statolith

What do we mean by statolith?

One of the small movable calcareous particles in a statocyst. noun

One of the starch grains or other solid particles in a plant cell thought to function in the plant's response to gravity. noun

A small stony secretion or an accumulation of particles of sand contained in an open or closed sensory sac or lodged in a sensory pedicel of some actively locomotor invertebrate (cœlenterate, ctenophore, worm, mollusk, or arthropod), and so situated that it enables the animal possessing it to become oriented with reference to the center of the earth by responding to the pressure it exercises through the pull of gravity. noun

In botany, a movable starch-grain occurring in the cell sap of some cells, supposed to correspond in function with bodies so named found in the statocysts of animals. See s˙tatoplast. noun

A specialized form of amyloplast involved in graviperception by plant roots and most invertebrates. noun

A specialized form of amyloplast involved in graviperception by plant roots and most invertebrates.

Words that are spelled similarly to statolith:
statolith, sialolith, statoliths.

Adjectives that are often used to describe statolith:
single, large, calcareous, ferrite, granular.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective statolith:
theory, starch, hypothesis, sedimentation.

Words that sound like statolith:
statal, satellite, steadily, sattelite, stateless, staddle, sattilite, satellit, stadel, settle with, statically, satillite, stodola, static cling, status, static, seattle, settling, stately, subtly, staten, staton, stoutly, stylize, sattel, satle, saddling, statice, stata, styli, statum, statler, sturdily, satel, stachel, statton, statoil, statant, autotelic, stratal, steidl, sweatily, state law, state police, statedly, settle in.