noun, verb ·3 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   An act or an instance of growing or maintaining a culture (especially of bacteria).

   "Thus a positive finding may require several control culturings after treatment to eliminate false-negative results."

Verb

1. 1
   present participle and gerund of culture form-of, gerund, participle, present

Synonyms

All synonyms

acculturationpolishacculturationacheuleanacquired tasteagrarianism

Example

More examples

"Tom succeeded in culturing the new microorganism."

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