contaminant
B1CEFR level
25/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister
An unwanted organism or substance introduced into a sample that can invalidate results.
The mixed growth was reported as a likely skin contaminant rather than a true pathogen.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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