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mycoremediate

mycoremediate verb: to use fungi to degrade or sequester environmental contaminants.

Verb

mycoremediate (third-person singular simple present mycoremediates, present participle mycoremediating, simple past and past participle mycoremediated)

  1. To use fungi to degrade or sequester environmental contaminants.
    • When choosing mushroom species to mycoremediate a toxic site, select species that naturally grow in that landscape.2011, Paul Stamets, Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World, page 112
    • The findings of that work could help mycoremediate the oil sands tailings in the Fort McMurray area of northern Alberta.2012, Robert Rogers, The Fungal Pharmacy, page 6

Forms of mycoremediate

third-person singular presentmycoremediates
present participlemycoremediating
past participlemycoremediated
pastmycoremediated

Origin of mycoremediate

Probably a back-formation from mycoremediation; by surface analysis, myco- + remediate.

Questions about mycoremediate

What does mycoremediate mean?
Mycoremediate means to use fungi to degrade or sequester environmental contaminants.
What part of speech is mycoremediate?
Mycoremediate is a verb.
What is the past tense of mycoremediate?
The past tense of mycoremediate is mycoremediated.

Words near mycoremediate in the dictionary

  1. mycoplasmosis
  2. mycoplasms
  3. mycoprotein
  4. mycoproteins
  5. mycoredoxin
  6. mycoremediate
  7. mycoremediated
  8. mycoremediates
  9. mycoremediating
  10. mycoremediation
  11. mycoremediations

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