gram's procedure
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.44 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
n
a staining technique used to classify bacteria; bacteria are stained with gentian violet and then treated with Gram's solution; after being decolorized with alcohol and treated with safranine and washed in water, those that retain the gentian violet are Gram-positive and those that do not retain it are Gram-negative