Associations to the word «Inoculant»

Wiktionary

INOCULANT, noun. The active material used in an inoculation; an inoculum
INOCULANT, noun. (engineering) An alloyant used to refine grains in a cast macrostructure.

Dictionary definition

INOCULANT, noun. A substance (a virus or toxin or immune serum) that is introduced into the body to produce or increase immunity to a particular disease.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope