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PASTEURIAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Pasteurian mean?
• PASTEURIAN (adjective)
The adjective PASTEURIAN has 1 sense:
1. of or relating to Louis Pasteur or his experiments
Familiarity information: PASTEURIAN used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to Louis Pasteur or his experiments
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
Pasteur (French chemist and biologist whose discovery that fermentation is caused by microorganisms resulted in the process of pasteurization (1822-1895))
Derivation:
Pasteur (French chemist and biologist whose discovery that fermentation is caused by microorganisms resulted in the process of pasteurization (1822-1895))
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