inoculate
/ɪˈnɒkjʊleɪt/verb
with obj.
1- treat (a person or animal) with a vaccine to produce immunity against a disease给（人, 动物）接种疫苗：
he inoculated his tenants against smallpox.
他给他的房客们接种天花疫苗。比较VACCINATE.
1.1
- introduce (an infective agent) into an organism（对生物体）接种（感染物）：
it can be inoculated into laboratory animals.
它可被接种入实验动物。
1.2
- introduce (cells or organisms) into a culture medium把（细胞, 有机体）接种入培养基。
派生词
inoculable
adjectiveinoculation
nouninoculator
noun词源
late Middle English （in the sense 'graft a bud or shoot into a plant of a different type'）： from Latin inoculat- 'engrafted', from the verb inoculare, from in- 'into' + oculus 'eye, bud'. The sense 'vaccinate' dates from the early 18th cent.