INOCULANT

inoculant, inoculum

(noun) a substance (a virus or toxin or immune serum) that is introduced into the body to produce or increase immunity to a particular disease

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

inoculant (plural inoculants)

The active material used in an inoculation; an inoculum

(engineering) An alloyant used to refine grains in a cast microstructure.

Synonyms

• (engineering): grain refiner

Anagrams

• continual

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

4 April 2025

GUILLOTINE

(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”


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Coffee Trivia

The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.

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