motatorious

English

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Latin motare, -atum to keep moving, frequentative of movere, to move”)

Adjective

motatorious (not comparable)

(zoology, archaic) In perpetual vibratory motion; said of the legs of some spiders and crane-flies, etc.