bacteria
IPA: bæktˈɪriʌ
noun
- (US) A type, species, or strain of bacterium.
- (derogatory, slang) Lowlife, slob (could be treated as plural or singular).
- (dated, medicine) An oval bacterium, as distinguished from a spherical coccus or rod-shaped bacillus.
- (US, proscribed) Alternative form of bacterium. [(microbiology) A single-celled organism with cell walls but no nucleus or organelles.]
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Examples of "bacteria" in Sentences
- The augmentation of the bacteria is fast.
- In such scrubbers, the bacteria scrub the pollutant.
- In such scrubbers, the bacteria scrubs the pollutant.
- Two important bacteria cause lung infections in foals.
- In the colon they are fermented by anaerobic bacteria.
- At the site of infection, the neutrophils engulf and kill bacteria.
- The heat destroys the harmful bacteria that are living on the meat.
- The bacteria also infect the roots leading to the formation of nodules.
- The cause of sinus infection is bacteria in the lining cells of the sinuses.
- In these symbioses the bacteria are never released from the infection thread.