Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Not contaminated by or associated with any other living organisms. Usually used in reference to pure cultures of microorganisms that are completely free of the presence of other organisms.
Wiktionary
- adj. biology Containing only a single species of microorganism. For example, an "axenic culture" means that a pure sample of the organism in question has been grown.
- adj. biology Isolated from organisms of any other species
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. raised under sterile conditions; -- of experimental animals.
- adj. pure or completely free of the presence of other organisms; -- used of cultures of microorganisms.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. (of experimental animals) raised under sterile conditions
- adj. (used of cultures of microorganisms) completely free from other organisms
Etymologies
- a- + xenic (Wiktionary)
- a-1 + Greek xenikos, foreign (from xenos, stranger; see ghos-ti- in Indo-European roots). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Researchers can generate bacteria-free axenic mice.”
“Naturally, once China showed a willingness to abandon its axenic attitude towards foreign devils and all things foreign-devilish, the”
“Naturally, once China showed a willingness to abandon its axenic attitude towards foreign devils and all things foreign-devilish, the European Powers turned their eyes and energies towards her, and a strenuous commercial and diplomatic race after prospective concessions for railways, mines, and undertakings of all kinds began.”
“Epimastigote forms of T. cruzi were grown in liver-infusion tryptose axenic medium at 27°C.”
“On the day 14, trophozoites were eliminated from the co-culture while about 5x10 (4) cells/ml remained in the axenic T. pyriformis culture.”
“Analyzing this data set, we found that among the list of 443 genes reported by Sillo et al. [23] to be responsive to a switch from axenic growth of”
“L. gibba bioassay procedures (like test vessel material, sterilisation and axenic culturing procedures) influence the sensitivity of the bioassay”
“Actinomycin-D puromycin-HCl axenic cultures nematode, Neoaplectana glaseri”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘axenic’.
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Vega's Logophile Dictionary
Words I've heard/read in use, words being learnt, words that I want to eventually use in everyday language, words that are high-brow and elitist and scholarly and obscure, words that display the wo...
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Miscellany, pt. a
afterdamp, abluent, acanthoid, aquiline, acaulescent, aesthetic evil, armillary, armozeen, astucity, athletary, aberrant, abeyant and 118 more...
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Words learned and assimilated.
mackle, hummingbird, axenic, nacreous, atavic, suture, crepuscule, effluvium, dialectic, mythopoeia, leporine, caravansary and 13 more...
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Cool Shroomy Words
axenic, ascomycetes, shroud, zonate, mycelium, mycorrhiza, stroma, sclerotium, saprophyte, umbonate, psylocybin, lamellae and 3 more...
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Stranger's Words XENO-tropes
hostile, hospitable words (many based upon the IE root (g)hosti-) and reactions to the stranger and other words about the qualities of the strange (unfamiliar).
guest, gastarbeiter, host, hostile, hospice, hospitable, hospital, hospitality, hostage, hostel, hostler, xenia and 14 more...
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