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🌵 Not farmable 🧫 Cannot grow in lab
uncultivatable

uncultivatable

9.9
Organisms that cannot be grown in a lab using normal methods
  • adjective
  • /ˌʌnˌkʌltɪˈveɪtəbl/
  • Specialized
translation icon : incultivable
  • Many environmental microbes remain uncultivatable under standard laboratory conditions, complicating efforts to study their biology.

Examples

  • Researchers developed new growth media to coax previously uncultivatable bacteria to form colonies for antibiotic testing.

  • Genome sequencing helps identify functions of uncultivatable organisms when laboratory culture is not possible.

  • Some species are uncultivatable under laboratory conditions.

  • Is it true that some fungi are uncultivatable?

  • Many environmental microbes remain uncultivatable under standard laboratory conditions, complicating efforts to study their biology.

  • Researchers developed new growth media to coax previously uncultivatable bacteria to form colonies for antibiotic testing.

  • Genome sequencing helps identify functions of uncultivatable organisms when laboratory culture is not possible.

Synonyms

unculturable
vsuncultivatable
  • Specialized
9.5

Tiny living things that cannot be grown in a laboratory

requires special or unknown techniques rather than standard methods
uncultivable
vsuncultivatable
8.6

Land that cannot grow crops

focuses on laboratory failure under standard methods rather than poor environmental conditions

How Cultivable

culturable
  • Specialized
6.2
difficult
∞ 1.6
uncultivatable
  • Specialized
9.9

Surface Forms

uncultivatable positive

Morphology

uncultivatable = cultivatable (transparent) = un + cultivate + able

The prefix 'un-' negates 'cultivatable', and the meaning is directly derived.

Etymology

Uncultivatable is built from un- 'not' and cultivate 'to grow', and it is related to culture (which can mean 'growing cells or organisms'); so it describes a microbe or organism that cannot be grown or kept using normal laboratory methods.