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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16 March 2025

SUSPENDED

(adjective) (of undissolved particles in a fluid) supported or kept from sinking or falling by buoyancy and without apparent attachment; “suspended matter such as silt or mud...”; “dust particles suspended in the air”; “droplets in suspension in a gas”


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Coffee Trivia

Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.

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