Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, proof against disease. See
resistant , I. 2.
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Examples
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He spent the first six months of his life in, he later wrote, a "marsupial sanctuary inside my mother's clothing," and his early childhood living in a supposedly disease-proof elevated, tented six-by-six-foot crib set outside.
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If children are given natural food in normal quantities they are disease-proof.
Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency R. L. Alsaker
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There is no such thing absolutely, and perhaps there never will be, any more than there is a disease-proof wheat, or dog, or horse, or man.
The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Sutton and Sons
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