gram-positive

See also: Gram-positive

English

Alternative forms
  • Gram-positive (Note: The form with capital G is the only form given in the American Heritage Dictionary. "Gram" is actually a proper name.)

Etymology

From Gram (“a surname”) + positive, after Danish bacteriologist Hans Christian Gram, who invented the Gram staining method.

Adjective

gram-positive (not comparable)

  1. (medicine, bacteriology, of a bacterium) That is stained violet by Gram's method

Coordinate terms

See also

Italian

Adjective

gram-positive

  1. feminine plural of gram-positivo
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