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Resistant

adjective

Relating to or conferring immunity (to disease or infection). Synonym: immune.

Able to tolerate environmental conditions or physiological stress. Synonym: tolerant. "These fish are quite tolerant as long as extremes of pH are avoided" , "The new hybrid is more resistant to drought"

Impervious to being affected. "Resistant to persuasion"

Disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority. Synonyms: insubordinate, resistive.

Incapable of absorbing or mixing with. Synonym: repellent. "Plastic highly resistant to steam and water"

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"Resistant" Quotes from Famous Books

... succeeding seasons, some of which came into bearing in 1908, just as the Endothia blight began to invade New Jersey. The hybrids between the chinquapins and native and European chestnuts were quickly infected, but those with Japan varieties appeared far more resistant. All work with the susceptible native and Europeans ceased, but crosses with Japans and the Chinese chestnut, Castanea Molissima, have been continued until now there are over eight hundred in existence. In late ...

— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Eleventh Annual Meeting - Washington, D. C. October 7 AND 8, 1920 • Various

... subsequently emphasized the fact that if you are reasonably resistant, and want to get tough and young again, you can do far worse than come and ...

— A Labrador Doctor - The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell • Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

... are readily soluble and others of which are not readily soluble; in such rocks a peculiar appearance is presented, due to the rapid disappearance of the soluble substance, and the persistence of the more resistant substance (Fig. 31). ...

— General Science • Bertha M. Clark

... distribution of the disease in some localities, but the most common method of infection is by way of the digestive tract, through eating and drinking food and water contaminated with the anthrax germs. The spores of the B. anthracis are very resistant to changes in temperature and drying. They may live for years in rich, moist inundated soils. River-bottom and swampy lands that have become infected with discharges from the bodies of animals sick ...

— Common Diseases of Farm Animals • R. A. Craig, D. V. M.

... to kill even the mouse; Toussaint and Chauveau confirmed, and others have extended the observations. More remarkable still, animals inoculated with such "attenuated" bacilli proved to be curiously resistant to the deadly effects of subsequent inoculations of the non-attenuated form. In other words, animals vaccinated with the cultivated bacillus showed immunity from disease when reinoculated with the deadly wild form. The questions as to the causes and nature of the changes in the bacillus ...

— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 - "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" • Various

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