STAINABILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stainability mean? 

• STAINABILITY (noun)
  The noun STAINABILITY has 1 sense:

1. (cytology) the capacity of cells or cell parts to stain specifically with certain dyes

  Familiarity information: STAINABILITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STAINABILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(cytology) the capacity of cells or cell parts to stain specifically with certain dyes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("stainability" is a kind of...):

inclination; tendency (a characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect)

Domain category:

cytology (the branch of biology that studies the structure and function of cells)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stainability"):

basophilia (the tendency of cells to stain with basic dyes)

Derivation:

stainable (capable of being stained (especially of cells and cell parts))