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decolourized

decolourized is the simple past and past participle of decolourize.

Meaning of decolourize

Verb

decolourize (third-person singular simple present decolourizes, present participle decolourizing, simple past and past participle decolourized)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To drain of colour, to remove the colour from.

Adjective

decolourized (not comparable)

  1. From which pigment has been removed
    • The decolourized flies were treated with 50 μL of hybridization buffer (20 mM Tris-Cl, pH-8, 1% Sodium dodecyl sulphate, 0.9 M sodium chloride, 30% Formamide) containing specific LNA probes for different bacterial endosymbionts.2015 August 20, “Infection of Bacterial Endosymbionts in Insects: A Comparative Study of Two Techniques viz PCR and FISH for Detection and Localization of Symbionts in Whitefly, Bemisia tabaci”, in...

Questions about decolourized

What does decolourized mean?
Decolourized means from which pigment has been removed.
What is decolourized the simple past and past participle of?
Decolourized is the simple past and past participle of decolourize.
What part of speech is decolourized?
Decolourized is an adjective.

Words near decolourized in the dictionary

  1. decolourises
  2. decolourising
  3. decolourization
  4. decolourizations
  5. decolourize
  6. decolourized
  7. decolourizer
  8. decolourizers
  9. decolourizes
  10. decolourizing
  11. decolours

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