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INOCULANT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does inoculant mean?
• INOCULANT (noun)
The noun INOCULANT has 1 sense:
1. a substance (a virus or toxin or immune serum) that is introduced into the body to produce or increase immunity to a particular disease
Familiarity information: INOCULANT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A substance (a virus or toxin or immune serum) that is introduced into the body to produce or increase immunity to a particular disease
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Synonyms:
inoculant; inoculum
Hypernyms ("inoculant" is a kind of...):
substance (a particular kind or species of matter with uniform properties)
Domain category:
virus ((virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein)
Derivation:
inoculate (perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation)
Context examples
A. facilis was originally isolated from soil and is used as a soil inoculant in horticulture and agriculture.
(Acidovorax facilis, NCI Thesaurus)
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