Usually means: Normal genetic form of organism.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. wild-type: Merriam-Webster
  2. Wild-Type, Wild-type: Wordnik
  3. wild-type: Wiktionary
  4. wild-type: Dictionary.com
  5. Wild-type: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. Wild-type: TheFreeDictionary.com
  7. wild-type: Wordnik

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Wild-type: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. wild-type: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  4. Microbial Genetics Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  6. wild-type: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Wild-type)

noun:  Alternative spelling of wild type [(biology, ecology) The typical form of an organism, strain, gene or characteristic as it occurs in nature.]

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