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Acid-fast

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Retaining stain when treated with an acidic solution.
Adjective
  1. 1
    not easily decolorized by acid solutions; pertains to micro-organisms (especially the tubercle bacillus that causes tuberculosis) wordnet

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