lab-grown
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.23 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Grown from animal cells in a laboratory environment, as opposed to harvested from an animal.
adj
Created in a laboratory as opposed to mined from the Earth.
Example Sentences
- "It should come as no surprise that while the peasants are expected to eat fermented fungi, lab-grown meats and maggot milkshakes, the Controligarchs — with their private chefs — have no intention of doing the same."
- "The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ruled in 2018 that lab-grown diamonds are included in the same definitional universe as mined diamonds but warned against the use of terms like "natural" in marketing that confused the two categories."