pure culture

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noun

the growth of only one microorganism in a culture.

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Origin of pure culture

First recorded in 1890–95

Words nearby pure culture

pure, pure and simple, pure as the driven snow, pureblood, purebred, pure culture, pure democracy, purée, Pure Food and Drug Act, purehearted, pure imaginary number

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How to use pure culture in a sentence

In the tenth week the bacillus present when in pure culture killed a guinea-pig in thirty-six hours.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine|Austin Malley
Having obtained a pure culture of bacteria, they may easily be studied under the compound microscope.
A Civic Biology|George William Hunter
When we have succeeded in isolating a certain kind of bacterium in a given dish, we are said to have a pure culture.
A Civic Biology|George William Hunter
The resulting growth will almost certainly be a pure culture of the yeast.
The Elements of Bacteriological Technique|John William Henry Eyre

The social hour, however, occasionally develops in a direction quite away from the realms of pure culture.
What eight million women want|Rheta Childe Dorr

British Dictionary definitions for pure culture

pure culture

noun

bacteriol a culture containing a single species of microorganism

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