avianize
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To attenuate (something such as a virus, for example for use in a vaccine) by repeatedly culturing it in bird embryos.
Example Sentences
- "In Japan a lapinized/avianized vaccine was developed which was used extensively to control the disease in Asia. [.].. The Onderstepoort strain was attenuated by growth in avian cells [...]"
- "[…] In the third stratum dances the spirits impersonated in the kuksuyu and kilaki, which elsewhere are regarded as anthropomorphic deity and dragon respectively, are by the Central and some Northern Miwok identified with birds, the kuksuyu with a shore bird, the kilaki with a hawk. This is perhaps a manifestation of the tendency to avianize even the new dances of the third or Ghost-Dance stratum."
Etymology
From avian + -ize.