Usually means: Bacteria with thick peptidoglycan walls.
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  1. gram-positive: Merriam-Webster
  2. Gram-positive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gram-positive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Gram-positive, Gram-positive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Gram-positive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gram-positive, gram-positive: Wordnik
  7. Gram-positive, gram-positive: Wiktionary
  8. Gram-positive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Gram-positive: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. gram-positive: Dictionary.com
  11. Gram-positive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. gram-positive: Rhymezone
  13. gram-positive: FreeDictionary.org
  14. gram-positive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. gram-positive: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. gram-positive: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. gram-positive: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Gram-positive: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  5. gram-positive: Medical dictionary
  6. Gram-positive: Drug Medical Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Gram-positive)

adjective:  (medicine, bacteriology, of a bacterium) That is stained violet by Gram's method
adjective:  (bacteriology, of a bacterium) That stains dark blue or violet after Gram staining, due to large quantities of peptidoglycan in the cell wall.

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