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agarolytic

agarolytic adjective: destructive to agar.

Adjective

agarolytic (comparative more agarolytic, superlative most agarolytic)

  1. destructive to agar
    • Here we performed advanced microbial taxonomies combined with both genome-based and classical approaches for new agarolytic vibrio isolates to describe not only a novel Vibrio species but also a member of a new Vibrio clade.2015 August 28, “Advanced Microbial Taxonomy Combined with Genome-Based-Approaches Reveals that Vibrio astriarenae sp. nov., an Agarolytic Marine Bacterium, Forms a New Clade in Vibrionaceae”, in...

Forms of agarolytic

comparativemore agarolytic
superlativemost agarolytic

Origin of agarolytic

From agar + -o- + -lytic.

Questions about agarolytic

What does agarolytic mean?
Agarolytic means destructive to agar.
What part of speech is agarolytic?
Agarolytic is an adjective.

Words near agarolytic in the dictionary

  1. agarized
  2. agarobiose
  3. agarofuran
  4. agarofurans
  5. agaroheptaose
  6. agarolytic
  7. agaropectin
  8. agaropectins
  9. agaropentaose
  10. agarophyte
  11. agarophytes

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