filtrate n the product of filtration; a gas or liquid that has been passed through a filter v remove by passing through a filter Usage(s) Such filtrate generally creates a new tumor in a definite period of time. Their deaths were traced to hypodermic injections of a special bacterial filtrate. That solution was a filtrate of Bacillus typhostis, the germ which causes typhoid fever. Synonym(s) filter strain separate out filter out