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PASTEURIAN
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to Louis Pasteur or his experiments
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Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
Pasteur (French chemist and biologist whose discovery that fermentation is caused by microorganisms resulted in the process of pasteurization (1822-1895))
Derivation:
Pasteur (French chemist and biologist whose discovery that fermentation is caused by microorganisms resulted in the process of pasteurization (1822-1895))