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inoculate Definition

in·ocu·late (i näk′yə lāt′)

transitive verb -·lat′ed, -·lat′·ing

    1. to inject a serum, vaccine, etc. into (a living organism), esp. in order to create immunity
    2. to communicate (a disease) in this way
  2. to put or implant microorganisms into (soil, a culture medium, etc.) to develop a culture, stimulate growth, fix nitrogen, etc.
  3. to introduce ideas, etc. into the mind of; imbue

Etymology: ME enoculaten < L inoculatus, pp. of inoculare, to engraft a bud in another plant < in-, in + oculus, a bud, eye

inoculate Related Forms

in·oc′u·la′·tive (--lāt′iv; --lə tiv) adjective in·oc′u·la′·tor noun

inoculate Synonyms

inoculate

v.

immunize, vaccinate, protect; see inject 1, treat 3, vaccinate.

inoculate Usage Examples

Object

  • seedling: Six weeks after inoculation brownish, sunken lesions were observed on the base of stems of seedlings inoculated with all anastomosis groups.
  • plant: The survival rate of inoculated plants was 68 % .
  • mouse: The mouse bioassay involves inoculating mice with suspect tissue from a cow or sheep.
  • plate: A loop was used to inoculate a fresh plate of nutrient agar from this plate.
  • soil: This can be done in three ways: 1. By inoculating the soil in the nursery.
  • leave: Inoculated leaves were covered with a small piece of moist cotton.

Preposition: with

  • suspension: The tubers were uniformly wounded by removing a shallow plug of tissue with a cork borer and inoculated with a suspension of Eca.
  • virus: They confined rabbits inoculated with virus in a 1 square kilometer pen behind two sets of double fences.
  • water: Control plants, inoculated with sterile distilled water, showed no symptoms.
  • yeast: The grapes were chilled and remained in open stainless steel tanks for six days under anaerobic conditions before being inoculated with selected yeasts.
  • plug: The stems of trees were wound inoculated with mycelial agar plugs.
  • ml: An area of 81 square inches of each countertop was inoculated with 1 ml of this culture in M broth.

Preposition: against

disease: Reading your book is like being inoculated against a deadly disease.

Modifying Another Word

  • mechanically: Target plants are mechanically inoculated by rubbing leaves or by dipping tomato roots into diluted inoculum.
  • artificially: A. mellea and A. ostoyae were also found to infect artificially inoculated docks in field conditions.
  • fully: All kittens leave us fully inoculated, GCCF reg, insured etc with just about everything they will need for their first few weeks.
  • then: The boy was then inoculated with smallpox in July, which did not develop thus proving Jenner's argument.
  • also: Your G.P. can also inoculate but may take a while to get to get the vaccine in.
  • intracerebrally: Two animals were inoculated intracerebrally and succumbed to disease in early 1992.

Preposition: at

stage: Effect of cotton leaf crumple virus on cotton inoculated at different growth stages.