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Meaning of lab-grown | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Grown from animal cells in a laboratory environment, as opposed to harvested from an animal.
    not-comparable
  2. Created in a laboratory as opposed to mined from the Earth.
    not-comparable

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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