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Meaning
Noun
●
In Nature:
plural of bacterium
●
In American English & Nature:
A type,
species
, or
strain
of bacterium.
●
In American English & Nature:
Alternative form of bacterium.
⚠️
Lowlife,
slob
(could be
treated
as
plural
or singular).
●
In Medicine & Nature:
An
oval
bacterium
, as
distinguished
from a
spherical
coccus
or
rod-shaped
bacillus.
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Origin
bacteria
English
bacteria
Latin
βακτηρία
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Sourced from
Etym
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