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nonculture

nonculture noun: absence of culture.

Noun

nonculture (countable and uncountable, plural noncultures)

  1. (uncountable) Absence of culture.
  2. (countable) A group or community that is not a culture.

Adjective

nonculture (not comparable)

  1. Not involving a bacterial culture.
    • nonculture tests for chlamydial infection

Forms of nonculture

pluralnoncultures

Origin of nonculture

From non- + culture.

Questions about nonculture

What does nonculture mean?
Nonculture means absence of culture.
What part of speech is nonculture?
Nonculture can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of nonculture?
The plural of nonculture is noncultures.

Words near nonculture in the dictionary

  1. noncultivated
  2. noncultivation
  3. nonculturable
  4. noncultural
  5. nonculturally
  6. nonculture
  7. noncultured
  8. noncultures
  9. noncum
  10. noncumulate
  11. noncumulative

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