Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

gnotobiotic en · ADJ

Pronunciation

/ˌnəʊtəbaɪˈɒtɪk/

Etymology

From Ancient Greek γνωτός (gnōtós, “known”) + English -biotic.

Meanings

(not-comparable) Pertaining to gnotobiotics.
(not-comparable, of organisms or of specimens containing them) Known with good certainty to be free of contaminating species, and thus offering such qualities as immunological naivete.

Coordinates

monocultural · monoaxenic · axenic · monocultured

Deriveds

gnotobiotically

Relateds

gnotobiote · xenofree · antibiotic · xenobiotic · gnotobiont · gnotobiota · abiotic