BACTERIA as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • (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 plants
   Synonym(s)
   • bacterium (what does bacterium mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) bacteria is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • microorganism (what does microorganism mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • acidophil (what does acidophil mean?)
   • acidophile (what does acidophile mean?)
   • bacteroid (what does bacteroid mean?)
   • Calymmatobacterium (what does Calymmatobacterium mean?)
   • genus Calymmatobacterium (what does genus Calymmatobacterium mean?)
   • Francisella (what does Francisella mean?)
   • genus Francisella (what does genus Francisella mean?)
   • gonococcus (what does gonococcus mean?)
   • Neisseria gonorrhoeae (what does Neisseria gonorrhoeae mean?)
   • Legionella pneumophilia (what does Legionella pneumophilia mean?)
   • legionella (what does legionella mean?)
   • nitrobacterium (what does nitrobacterium mean?)
   • penicillin-resistant bacteria (what does penicillin-resistant bacteria mean?)
   • rod (what does rod mean?)
   • diplococcus (what does diplococcus mean?)
   • Rickettsia (what does Rickettsia mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • bacterize (what does bacterize mean?)
   • bacterise (what does bacterise mean?)
   • bacterize (what does bacterize mean?)
   • bacterise (what does bacterise mean?)