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MacConkey agar

MacConkey agar noun: a culture medium designed to grow gram-negative bacteria and differentiate them for lactose fermentation.

Noun

MacConkey agar (countable and uncountable, plural MacConkey agars)

  1. A culture medium designed to grow gram-negative bacteria and differentiate them for lactose fermentation.

Forms of MacConkey agar

pluralMacConkey agars

Origin of MacConkey agar

The medium was developed by the bacteriologist Alfred Theodore MacConkey.

Words formed from MacConkey agar

  • sorbitol MacConkey agar

Questions about MacConkey agar

What does MacConkey agar mean?
MacConkey agar means a culture medium designed to grow gram-negative bacteria and differentiate them for lactose fermentation.
What part of speech is MacConkey agar?
MacConkey agar is a noun.
What is the plural of MacConkey agar?
The plural of MacConkey agar is MacConkey agars.

Words near MacConkey agar in the dictionary

  1. MacCloud
  2. macco
  3. maccoboy
  4. maccocious
  5. MacColl
  6. MacConkey agar
  7. MacConkey agars
  8. MacCool
  9. MacCormack
  10. MacCormacks
  11. MacCormick

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