AVIANIZE

avianize, avianise

(verb) to modify microorganisms by repeated culture in the developing chick embryo

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

avianize (third-person singular simple present avianizes, present participle avianizing, simple past and past participle avianized)

(medicine) To attenuate (something such as a virus, for example for use in a vaccine) by repeatedly culturing it in bird embryos.

(rare) To make avian; to make bird-like or into a bird.

Source: Wiktionary



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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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