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reculture

reculture

English

Verb

reculture (third-person singular simple present recultures, present participle reculturing, simple past and past participle recultured)

  1. (transitive) To change the culture of (a social institution).
    to reculture a troubled school
  2. (transitive, biology) To culture again or anew.
    • 2015 August 29, “Generation of SNCA Cell Models Using Zinc Finger Nuclease (ZFN) Technology for Efficient High-Throughput Drug Screening”, in PLOS ONE, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0136930:
      The colonies in each well were pooled and recultured for characterization and storage.

Latin

Participle

recultūre

  1. vocative masculine singular of recultūrus