Bacterium Synonyms

băk-tîrē-əm
(microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission; important as pathogens and for biochemical properties; taxonomy is difficult; often considered to be plants
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. bacteria

Words Related to Bacterium

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Bacterium Sentence Examples

  • In ordinary arable soil there exist motile rod-like bacteria, Bacterium radicicola.

  • The bacterium attaches itself to the surfaces of red blood cells.

  • One bacterium might thus produce in twenty-four hours a number of segments amounting to many millions of millions.

  • Lister for isolating a pure culture of lactic acid bacterium.

  • For example, genes from the bacterium bacillus thuringiensis produce a toxin that kills certain insects.

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