gram-positive

== English == === Alternative forms === Gram-positive (Note: The form with capital G is the only form given in the American Heritage Dictionary. "Gram" is actually a proper name.) === Etymology === From Gram (“a surname”) + positive, after Danish bacteriologist Hans Christian Gram, who invented the Gram staining method. === Adjective === gram-positive (not comparable) (medicine, bacteriology, of a bacterium) That is stained violet by Gram's method ==== Coordinate terms ==== gram-negative ==== Translations ==== === See also === Gram staining Gram's method == Italian == === Adjective === gram-positive feminine plural of gram-positivo