an organism that thrives in a relatively acid environment
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A variety of bacterium; a microscopic, rod-shaped vegetable organism.
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an organism that thrives in a relatively acid environment
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Animals.See Bacterium.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Animals.A microscopic vegetable organism, belonging to the class Algae, usually in the form of a jointed rodlike filament, and found in putref…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Animals.Alt. of Bacteroidal
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Animals.a genus of bacterial rods containing only the one species that causes granuloma inguinale
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Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Animals.One of the separable carpels of a dry fruit.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Animals.A form of micrococcus in which cocci are united in a binary manner. See Micrococcus.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Animals.a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Animals.a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Animals.a genus of Gram-negative aerobic bacteria that occur as pathogens and parasite in many animals (including humans)
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Animals.a genus of bacterial rods containing only the one species that causes granuloma inguinale
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Animals.a genus of Gram-negative aerobic bacteria that occur as pathogens and parasite in many animals (including humans)
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Animals.A vegetable microorganism of the genus Micrococcus, occurring in the secretion in gonorrhea. It is believed by some to constitute the…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Animals.the motile aerobic rod-shaped Gram-negative bacterium that thrives in central heating and air conditioning systems and can cause Legio…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Animals.the motile aerobic rod-shaped Gram-negative bacterium that thrives in central heating and air conditioning systems and can cause Legio…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Animals.the motile aerobic rod-shaped Gram-negative bacterium that thrives in central heating and air conditioning systems and can cause Legio…
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A small animal, as a fly, spider, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variety, bacterium, microscopic, rod-shaped, vegetable.An animalcule.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variety, bacterium, microscopic, rod-shaped, vegetable.A carbuncle.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variety, bacterium, microscopic, rod-shaped, vegetable.of Bud
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variety, bacterium, microscopic, rod-shaped, vegetable.The eyelashes.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variety, bacterium, microscopic, rod-shaped, vegetable.One of the round variety of bacteria, a vegetable organism, generally less than a thousandth of a millimeter in diameter.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variety, bacterium, microscopic, rod-shaped, vegetable.Of the same species.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variety, bacterium, microscopic, rod-shaped, vegetable.The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variety, bacterium, microscopic, rod-shaped, vegetable.The act of developing or disclosing that which is unknown; a gradual unfolding process by which anything is developed, as a plan or me…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variety, bacterium, microscopic, rod-shaped, vegetable.Something inserted, as a wedge; the piston or sucker of a pump or syringe.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variety, bacterium, microscopic, rod-shaped, vegetable.The act by which, either in animals or plants, material prepared by the generative organs the female organism is brought in contact wi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variety, bacterium, microscopic, rod-shaped, vegetable.The point of a spear, or an arrowhead.
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