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pure culture

noun

  1. the growth of only one microorganism in a culture.


pure culture

noun

  1. bacteriol a culture containing a single species of microorganism
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of pure culture1

First recorded in 1890–95
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Example Sentences

In the tenth week the bacillus present when in pure culture killed a guinea-pig in thirty-six hours.

Having obtained a pure culture of bacteria, they may easily be studied under the compound microscope.

When we have succeeded in isolating a certain kind of bacterium in a given dish, we are said to have a pure culture.

The resulting growth will almost certainly be a pure culture of the yeast.

The social hour, however, occasionally develops in a direction quite away from the realms of pure culture.

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