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axenic, a. Biol.|eɪˈzɛnɪk|
[f. a- 14 (Gr. ἀ- priv.) + ξενικ-ός alien, strange.]
(See quot. 1942.)
1942Baker & Ferguson in Proc. Soc. Exper. Biol. & Med. LI. 116/1 The adjective axenic is introduced to denote a living organism that is free from all other demonstrable organisms... An axenic organism, as here defined, is a species free from any life apart from that produced by its own protoplasm. 1955Proc. Helminthological Soc. Washington XXII. 49 A number of soil-dwelling nematodes, particularly of the genus Rhabditis, have been cultured under axenic conditions. |