uncultivable

Examples

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• Identify appropriate diagnostic tests for antimicrobial drug resistance (e.g., molecular tests for uncultivable or slow-growing bacteria or for organisms in which resistance is linked to a single gene).

  Academic text (2014)

• Because of a greatly advanced molecular detection method, molecular-based methods enable the detection of uncultivable EV by using small sample quantities and specific primer sets.

  Academic text (2013)

• The scientist studied several species that are known to be uncultivable in laboratory conditions.

• Areas of the desert are often deemed uncultivable because of the lack of water and nutrients.

Synonyms

U

unfruitful

vsuncultivable

1 5.9

Not producing good results or crops

applies specifically to inability to produce crops or organisms from conditions

U

uncultivatable

vsuncultivable

8.7

Land that cannot grow crops or be farmed

is about being impossible to make produce crops or organisms due to conditions

U

unculturable

vsuncultivable

8.9

Land that cannot be used to grow crops because the soil is poor

focuses on inability to be made to produce organisms especially from bad conditions

U

ungiving

vsuncultivable

8.9

Land that does not grow crops or plants

emphasizes inability to be made to produce rather than mere low yield

Antonyms

C

cultivable

5.8

Land that is good for farming

How Cultivable

fertile

34 3.2

cultivable

5.8

poor

838 1.0

infertile

19 5.2

uncultivable

8.6

barren

5 7.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology