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单词 inoculator
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inoculatorn.

Brit. /ᵻˈnɒkjᵿleɪtə/, U.S. /ᵻˈnɑkjəˌleɪdər/
Forms:

α. 1600s inoculater.

β. 1600s inoculatour, 1600s– inoculator.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly formed within English, by derivation. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: inoculate v., -er suffix1; Latin inoculātor.
Etymology: Partly (in α. forms) < inoculate v. + -er suffix1; and partly (in β. forms) < classical Latin inoculātor engrafter < inoculāt- , past participial stem of inoculāre inoculate v. + -or -or suffix.Compare French inoculateur (1723 or earlier, in sense 2a).
1. A person who performs the budding or grafting of trees. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > [noun] > grafting > grafter
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grafter1600
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inoculatrix1623
engrafter1721
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Innestatore, a graffer, an inoculater.
1626 F. Bacon New Atlantis 45 in Sylua Syluarum These wee call Inoculatours.
1773 W. Hanbury Compl. Body Planting & Gardening II. 792/1 By such time as the inoculator has worked up his cuttings.
2.
a. A person who performs or advocates inoculation as a protection against an infectious disease (in early use spec. smallpox). Cf. vaccinator n. 1.
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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > specialist > [noun] > immunologist > inoculator
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inoculatrix1749
inoculist1766
1722 I. Massey Short & Plain Acct. Inoculation 17 The Inoculators all confess, that weak and distemper'd Persons are improper Subjects for their Practice.
1799 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 1 115 Every one..knows the strenuous opposition which the first inoculators had to encounter, both in England and America, from vulgar prejudice.
1880 Vaccination Inquirer & Health Rev. Sept. 78/2 Amateur inoculators, male and female, multiplied.
1909 L. Woolf Diary 19 Feb. in Rec. Colonial Administrator (1963) 51 One of the sick bulls died and I got Mr. Engelbrecht who was an inoculator for rinderpest in South Africa to hold a postmortem.
2021 Age (Melbourne) 3 Mar. 9 You want to get the inoculators, who are vaccinating people, immunised first and for them to build up some immunity to the virus before you really scale it up.
b. Something that can transmit an infectious disease or agent; an instrument or device used to inoculate a culture medium or living organism.
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1867 S. W. Baker Nile Tributaries Abyssinia viii. 160 Such facts are sufficient to prove the danger of holy relics, that are inoculators of all manner of contagious diseases.
1903 F. C. Zappfe Bacteriology viii. 246 A swab or inoculator consisting of a small iron rod or wooden stick, one end of which is wound with cotton.
1966 D. Reid Bot. for Gardener (1967) xvii.122 Plant-sucking insects, aphids in particular, are transmitters of virus diseases since they, passing from one plant to another, are very dangerous inoculators.
2014 Evolution 68 2456/2 A quantitative spray inoculator..was used to inoculate a 15 cm section of the penultimate leaf of each plant.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022).
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