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culture

noun [C or U] (GROWING)
 
 
/ˈkʌl.tʃər/ US  /-tʃɚ/ specialized

Definition

cells, tissues, organs, or organisms grown for scientific purposes, or the activity of breeding and keeping particular living things in order to get the substances they produceBacteria, moulds, germs and viruses
(Definition of culture noun (GROWING) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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