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)
- (medicine, bacteriology, of a bacterium) That is stained violet by Gram's method
Coordinate terms
See also
Italian
Adjective
gram-positive