bacterium

as inmicrobe

as inmicroorganism
as incell
as inferment
as ingerm

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Synonyms for bacterium

noun bacteria

More words related to bacterium

cell

noun. smallest living organism

cells

noun. smallest living organism

ferment

noun. substance causing chemicals to split into simpler substances

germ

noun. microscopic organism, often causing illness

germs

noun. microscopic organism, often causing illness

microbe

noun. bacteria

microbes

noun. bacteria

microorganism

noun. germ

Word Origin & History

c.1848, singular of bacteria (q.v.).

Example Sentences for bacterium

Virus or bacterium, amoeba or fungus—whatever it was, it struck.

At the end of three days there is not a bacterium to be found in it.

The bacterium of splenic fever is called Bacillus Anthracis.

Bacterium, The same, termo (Mller), magnified magnified 600 times.

The Bacterium termo (Fig. 30) is the smallest of the Infusoria.

Any carbohydrate in the broth is destroyed by the Bacterium coli.

The best known and defined forms are Bacterium termo and Bact.

They are motionless and are occasionally found with the Bacterium termo in putrefying organic liquids.

The cause proved to be a bacterium--that is, a small, rod-shaped plant.

The former is in every way like a bacterium in its mode of self-division.