Meaning of lab-grown | Babel Free

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.”

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