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avianized

avianized is the simple past and past participle of avianize.

Meaning of avianize

Verb

avianize (third-person singular simple present avianizes, present participle avianizing, simple past and past participle avianized)

  1. To attenuate (something such as a virus, for example for use in a vaccine) by repeatedly culturing it in bird embryos.
    • In Japan a lapinized/avianized vaccine was developed which was used extensively to control the disease in Asia. [.].. The Onderstepoort strain was attenuated by growth in avian cells [...]1994, Encyclopedia of Virology, volume 3, page 1267
  2. (rare) To make avian; to make bird-like or into a bird.
    • […] In the third stratum dances the spirits impersonated in the kuksuyu and kilaki, which elsewhere are regarded as anthropomorphic deity and dragon respectively, are by the Central and some Northern Miwok identified with birds, the kuksuyu with a shore bird, the kilaki with a hawk. This is perhaps...1922, Edward Winslow Gifford, Californian Kinship Terminologies, page 408

Questions about avianized

What is avianized the simple past and past participle of?
Avianized is the simple past and past participle of avianize.

Words near avianized in the dictionary

  1. avian ingestions
  2. Aviana
  3. avianise
  4. avianization
  5. avianize
  6. avianized
  7. avianizes
  8. avianizing
  9. avianlike
  10. Avianna
  11. avians

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