inoculator
Americannoun
plural
inoculators-
a person, such as a lab technician or healthcare worker, who inoculates people or animals.
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an instrument or piece of equipment used for inoculation.
Example Sentences
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Aseefa’s inoculator was her mother, the late Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, assassinated in 2007.
From Time • Sep. 27, 2012
Before he finally received his degree magna cum laude, he had worked as a druggist, soda jerk, janitor and hog inoculator.
From Time Magazine Archive
The sixth perpetuated its early admiration of the great small-pox inoculator, Boylston; and the last was named—for a hotel.
From The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 5, February, 1885 by Various
But dissensions sprang up, chiefly through the conduct of the resident inoculator recommending practices contrary to the printed regulations of the society, and it was virtually dissolved in 1806.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 14 by Various
Mr Gootes," I said impressively, "I am the man who applied the inoculator to this grass.
From Greener Than You Think by Moore, Ward
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