adjective.Learned in the ways of civilized society; civilized; refined.
adjective.
Artificially developed.
verb.
Simple past tense and past participle of culture.
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adjective.
marked by refinement in taste and manners
Word Usage
"Capecchi and Smithies had demonstrated that genes could be targeted by homologous recombination in cultured cells, and Evans had contributed the necessary vehicle to the mouse germ line – the ES-cells."