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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

preculture en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁eti Proto-Italic *kʷelō Latin colō Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂? Latin -tūra Latin cultūrader. Middle French cultureder. English culture English preculture From pre- + culture.

Meanings

A preliminary culture; a culture prepared in advance of the main experiment
- Second, some of the precultures used by Iglesias-Rodriguez et al., particularly those in high-CO₂ treatments, may have experienced nutrient limitation at the time of transfer to the experimental flasks. 2008 December 5, Ulf Riebesell et al., “Comment on "Phytoplankton Calcification in a High-CO₂ World"”, in Science, volume 322, number 5907:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
precultures	Number=Plur		lexicographic

preculture en · VERB

Etymology

Meanings

To culture in advance, such as before the main phase of an experiment
- For fresh, nonfrozen hepatocytes precultured for 24 h prior to being plated on collagen, the albumin secretion rate was 0.88 ± 0.62 mg/ml/h. 2001, T.B. Darr, A. Hubel, “Postthaw Viability of Precultured Hepatocytes”, in Cryobiology, volume 42, number 1:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Source
precultures	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres	lexicographic
precultured	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
precultured	Tense=Past	lexicographic
preculturing	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic