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.(microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission;…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Animals.(microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission;…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Animals.a rodlike bacterium (especially any of the rod-shaped or branched bacteria in the root nodules of nitrogen-fixing plants)
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.any spherical or nearly spherical bacteria
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Animals.any spherical or nearly spherical bacteria
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Animals.Gram-positive bacteria usually occurring in pairs
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.the pus-producing bacterium that causes gonorrhea
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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microscopic organism such as an amoeba or paramecium
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variety, bacterium, microscopic, rod-shaped, vegetable.microscopic organism such as an amoeba or paramecium
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variety, bacterium, microscopic, rod-shaped, vegetable.An infectious disease of cattle and sheep. It is ascribed to the presence of a rod-shaped bacterium (Bacillus anthracis), the spores o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variety, bacterium, microscopic, rod-shaped, vegetable.A process of asexual reproduction, in which a new organism or cell is formed by a protrusion of a portion of the animal or vegetable o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variety, bacterium, microscopic, rod-shaped, vegetable.Small, generally microscopic, vibrating appendages lining certain organs, as the air passages of the higher animals, and in the lower…
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.an organism belonging to the same species as another organism
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variety, bacterium, microscopic, rod-shaped, vegetable.the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism; "the animal died a painful death"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variety, bacterium, microscopic, rod-shaped, vegetable.(biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variety, bacterium, microscopic, rod-shaped, vegetable.A plug of some substance lodged in a blood vessel, being brought thither by the blood current. It consists most frequently of a clot o…
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.A rod or stick, as a fishing rod, a measuring rod, or a rod used to drive cattle with.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variety, bacterium, microscopic, rod-shaped, vegetable.
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