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cultivatable

cultivatable

6.7
Tiny living things or cells that can be grown in a lab
  • adjective
  • /ˈkʌltɪˌveɪtəbl/
  • Specialized
translation icon : culturable
  • Only the cultivatable bacteria from the soil sample produced colonies on the agar plates.

Examples

  • The report showed several cultivatable organisms, while others were detected only by sequencing.

  • Researchers screened water samples for cultivatable strains before starting antibiotic susceptibility tests.

  • Some cells are cultivatable.

  • This strain is cultivatable!

  • The scientists identified several cultivatable microorganisms that could thrive in laboratory conditions.

  • Our lab has developed techniques to isolate cultivatable cells from the tissue samples.

  • To study the disease, researchers need cultivatable bacteria for their experiments.

Synonyms

culturable
vscultivatable
  • Specialized
6.2

Able to be grown in a lab or in soil

is limited to growth specifically under laboratory or artificial culture conditions
growable
vscultivatable
4.4

Something people can grow or make larger

refers only to growth under controlled laboratory culture conditions

Antonyms

uncultivable
8.6

Land that cannot grow crops

How Cultivable

cultivatable
  • Specialized
6.7
unculturable
  • Specialized
9.5

Surface Forms

cultivatable positive

Morphology

cultivatable = cultivate (transparent) = cultivate + able

Same regular verb + -able formation; the ability to be grown or maintained in culture is a direct extension of 'to cultivate'.

Etymology

Cultivatable comes from cultivate, which means 'to grow' or 'to care for' and shares the same root as culture. So cultivatable for cells or microbes means they can be grown or kept in a lab 'culture'.