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gram-positive en · ADJ

Etymology

From Gram (“a surname”) + positive, after Danish bacteriologist Hans Christian Gram, who invented the Gram staining method.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, of a bacterium) That is stained violet by Gram's method

Forms

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Gram-positive alternative lexicographic

Coordinates

gram-negative

Relateds

Gram staining · Gram's method

Translations (3)

de grampositiv (stained violet by Gram's method) · ca gramnpositiu (stained violet by Gram's method) · it gram-positivo (stained violet by Gram's method)