"inoculum" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "preinoculum"
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        {
          "ref": "2015, C. Michele Thompson, Vietnamese Traditional Medicine: A Social History, page 82:",
          "text": "Observers noted that Chinese variolators in Vietnam exhibited one or two slight variations in their practice, however, one constant factor is that they all introduced inoculum into the nasal passages.",
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      "glosses": [
        "The active material used in an inoculation; an inoculant (i.e., a material or a dose thereof)."
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          "inoculation",
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          "inoculant",
          "inoculant"
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          "dose",
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "inoculate#Noun"
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      "tags": [
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      "translations": [
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          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "kalem",
          "sense": "material used in an inoculation",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "калем"
        }
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  "word": "inoculum"
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      "tags": [
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      "form": "inocula",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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        "The active material used in an inoculation; an inoculant (i.e., a material or a dose thereof)."
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      "roman": "kalem",
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      "word": "калем"
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