"ice-minus" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Coined by Stephen Lindlow because it lacks the gene he calls \"ice\" that creates a protein which provides a regular surface for the formation of ice.",
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      "expansion": "ice-minus (uncountable)",
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1985 November 14, Christopher Joyce, “Strawberry field will test man-made bacterium”, in New Scientist, volume 108, number 1482, page 18",
          "text": "Bees are know to carry the natural version of P. syringae after pollinating strawberry plants, but AGS points out that ice-minus poses no threat to other plants or insects.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Paul B. Thompson, Paul L. Thompson, Julie Eckinger, Food Biotechnology in Ethical Perspective, page 106",
          "text": "For ice-minus, the proposed mechanism was that engineered organisms would displace natural ones, and the hazard was a disruption of ecological processes in which ice formation is critical.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Stephen Nottingham, Genescapes: The Ecology of Genetic Engineering, page 19",
          "text": "In laboratory experiments, ice-minus conferred frost-tolerance on strawberries on to which it was sprayed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A genetically modified bacterium created from Pseudomona syringae that inhibits the formation of ice crystals, thereby making some crops more frost tolerant."
      ],
      "id": "en-ice-minus-en-noun-abNVmblg",
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        [
          "genetically",
          "genetically"
        ],
        [
          "modified",
          "modified"
        ],
        [
          "bacterium",
          "bacterium"
        ],
        [
          "ice",
          "ice"
        ],
        [
          "crystals",
          "crystals"
        ],
        [
          "crop",
          "crop"
        ],
        [
          "frost",
          "frost"
        ],
        [
          "tolerant",
          "tolerant"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "ice minus"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ice-minus"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Coined by Stephen Lindlow because it lacks the gene he calls \"ice\" that creates a protein which provides a regular surface for the formation of ice.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
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      },
      "expansion": "ice-minus (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
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        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1985 November 14, Christopher Joyce, “Strawberry field will test man-made bacterium”, in New Scientist, volume 108, number 1482, page 18",
          "text": "Bees are know to carry the natural version of P. syringae after pollinating strawberry plants, but AGS points out that ice-minus poses no threat to other plants or insects.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Paul B. Thompson, Paul L. Thompson, Julie Eckinger, Food Biotechnology in Ethical Perspective, page 106",
          "text": "For ice-minus, the proposed mechanism was that engineered organisms would displace natural ones, and the hazard was a disruption of ecological processes in which ice formation is critical.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Stephen Nottingham, Genescapes: The Ecology of Genetic Engineering, page 19",
          "text": "In laboratory experiments, ice-minus conferred frost-tolerance on strawberries on to which it was sprayed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A genetically modified bacterium created from Pseudomona syringae that inhibits the formation of ice crystals, thereby making some crops more frost tolerant."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "genetically",
          "genetically"
        ],
        [
          "modified",
          "modified"
        ],
        [
          "bacterium",
          "bacterium"
        ],
        [
          "ice",
          "ice"
        ],
        [
          "crystals",
          "crystals"
        ],
        [
          "crop",
          "crop"
        ],
        [
          "frost",
          "frost"
        ],
        [
          "tolerant",
          "tolerant"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "ice minus"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ice-minus"
}