bacteriological
Americanadjective
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They cannot be moved to cooler river waters until researchers rule out a bacteriological cause of the deaths.
From Reuters • Oct. 2, 2023
“If the material is composted, then we don’t have the bacteriological issues because that’s what the composting does — it kills the bacteria,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2023
Scottish microbiologist Alexander Fleming was studying “a purely academic bacteriological problem” when he stumbled on penicillin.
From Scientific American • Sep. 5, 2022
Conducting further bacteriological tests will require more time, the institute said.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 13, 2021
One by one they are dragged out by the tail; and that finishes the little beaver—sacrificed, like the guinea-pigs and rabbits of bacteriological laboratories, to the necessities of man.
From The Story of the Trapper by Laut, A. C.
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