inoculate Definition
in·ocu·late (i näk′yə lāt′)
transitive verb -·lat′ed, -·lat′·ing
- to inject a serum, vaccine, etc. into (a living organism), esp. in order to create immunity
- to communicate (a disease) in this way
- to put or implant microorganisms into (soil, a culture medium, etc.) to develop a culture, stimulate growth, fix nitrogen, etc.
- 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 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.
Browse dictionary entries near inoculate
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- ‹ innutrition
- ‹ innumerate
- ‹ innumerable
- ‹ innuendo
- ‹ Innsbruck
- ‹ Inns of Court
- ‹ innoxious
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