[1910–15; inocul(ate) + -ant]This word is first recorded in the period 1910–15. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: blackout, coverage, flashback, grass roots, insulin-ant is a suffix forming adjectives and nouns from verbs, occurring originally in Frenchand Latin loanwords (pleasant; constant; servant) and productive in English on this model; -ant has the general sense “characterized by or serving in the capacity of” that namedby the stem (ascendant; pretendant), esp. in the formation of nouns denoting human agents in legal actions or otherformal procedures (tenant; defendant; applicant; contestant). In technical and commercial coinages, -ant is a suffix of nouns denoting impersonal physical agents (propellant; lubricant; deodorant). In general, -ant can be added only to bases of Latin origin, with a very few exceptions, as coolant
Examples of 'inoculant' in a sentence
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Enzymatic-bacterial inoculant did not improve the qualitative, fermentative and nutritional characteristics of evaluated silages.
Rogério Marchiori Coan, Paulo de Figueiredo Vieira, Roselene Nunes da Silveira, RicardoAndrade Reis, Euclides Braga Malheiros, Márcio dos Santos Pedreira 2005, 'Inoculante enzimático-bacteriano, composição química e parâmetros fermentativos dassilagens dos capins Tanzânia e Mombaça Enzymatic-bacterial inoculants, chemical compositionand fermentation characteristics of Tanzaniagrass and Mombaçagrass silages', Revista Brasileira de Zootecniahttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-35982005000200008. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The inoculant affected lucerne silage characteristics but had little effect on the maize silages.
Richard Muck, Zwi G. Weinberg, Francisco E. Contreras-Govea 2013, 'Silage extracts used to study the mode of action of silage inoculants in ruminants',Agricultural and Food Sciencehttps://journal.fi/afs/article/view/6717. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
There was an interaction between sorghum inclusion and microbial inoculant for neutral detergent fiber.
Maria da Graça Morais, Camila Celeste Brandão Ferreira Ìtavo, Luis Carlos Vinhas Ítavo,Raquel Braga Rosa 2015, 'Sorghum inclusion and microbial inoculation in millet silage (Pennisetum americanum)',Boletim de Indústria Animalhttp://revistas.bvs-vet.org.br/bia/article/view/26251. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Nitragina inoculant, as a source of symbiotic bacteria, was applied before sowing seeds.
Tadeusz Zając, Agnieszka Klimek-Kopyra, Andrzej Oleksy 2013, 'Effect of Rhizobium inoculation of seeds and foliar fertilization on productivityof Pisum sativum L.', Acta Agrobotanicahttps://pbsociety.org.pl/journals/index.php/aa/article/view/1979. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)