(n) United States geneticist who published the complete base sequences for all the genes of a free-living organism, the influenza bacterium; later led team that developed a first draft of the entire human genome (born in 1946), Syn. J. Craig Ventner, Craig Ventner
n. [ OE. vintener, viniter, OF. vinetier, vinotier, LL. vinetarius, fr. L. vinetum a vineyard, fr. vinum wine. See Wine. ] One who deals in wine; a wine seller, or wine merchant. [ 1913 Webster ]