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

• gram-negative

See also

• Gram staining
• Gram's method

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Italian

Adjective

gram-positive

1. feminine plural of gram-positivo