Meanings
- misconstructionMisconstruction of hermetically (“in an airtight way”).
When I proofread her draft of the food safety announcement, I corrected *"hermitically sealed" to read correctly as "hermetically sealed".
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The fresh oleoresin was collected using 1.5 mL polyethylene tube for each sample and the tube was hermitically closed and refrigerated until the analysis.
2015 July 14, “Genome-Wide Identification of Differentially Expressed Genes Associated with the High Yielding of Oleoresin in Secondary Xylem of Masson Pine ( Pinus massoniana Lamb) by Transcriptomic Analysis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI - In the manner of a hermit.
By his fifties, he had moved out to Alaska and was living quite hermitically.
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