locomote
English
editEtymology
editBack formation from locomotion.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editlocomote (third-person singular simple present locomotes, present participle locomoting, simple past and past participle locomoted)
- (now chiefly biology) To move or travel (from one location to another).
- 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, published 2003, page 394:
- ‘Lucy and her kind did not locomote in anything like the modern human fashion,’ insists Tattersall.