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Definition of Inoculant
1. 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.
Generic synonyms: Substance
Category relationships: Virus
Derivative terms: Inoculate
Definition of Inoculant
1. Noun. The active material used in an inoculation; an inoculum ¹
2. Noun. (engineering) An alloyant used to refine grains in a cast macrostructure. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Inoculant
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inoculant
Literary usage of Inoculant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Technology of Cellulose Esters: A Theoretical and Practical Treatise on the by Edward Chauncey Worden (1921)
"... producing organism is reduced or destroyed by previously warming the inoculant,
the hydrogen fermentation occurs. The bacilli which bring about the two ..."
2. Biotechnology: Building on Farmers' Knowledge by Joske F. G. Bunders, Bertus Haverkort, Wim Hiemstra (1996)
"The appropriate use of a rhizobial inoculant depends on three main criteria: ...
As a rule, about 300 g of inoculant can be mixed with 65 kg of seed, ..."
3. Legumes in Crop Rotations--Bibliography, January 1990-December 1993 by Mary V. Gold (1994)
"Over the 2 yr, amounts of N in harvestable stover of the early-maturing cultivars
ranged from 9 to 24 kg ha-(l), averaged across inoculant treatments. ..."
4. Wild Land Shrub and Arid Land Restoration Symposium: Proceedings edited by Bruce A. Roundy, E. Durant McArthur, Jennifer S. Hayley, David K. Mann (1996)
"This study examines the efficacy of 18 different treatments (sugar, fertilizer,
mulch and cyanobacterial inoculant, and no water) on 1) the establishment ..."
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