About The Word Microbe

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Microbe

Microbe Meaning & Definition
Microbe Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Microbe?

[n] a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use

Synonyms | Synonyms for Microbe: bug | germ

Related Terms | Find terms related to Microbe: adenovirus | aerobe | aerobic bacteria | aerobic organism | amoeba | anaerobe | anaerobic bacteria | anaerobic organism | autotrophic organism | bacillus | bacteria | bacterium | being | bug | coccus | creature | crumb | disease-producing microorganism | dot | drop | droplet | echovirus | enterovirus | filterable virus | fleck | flyspeck | fungus | genetic individual | germ | gnat | grain | gram-negative bacteria | gram-positive bacteria | heterotrophic organism | individual | iota | jot | living being | living thing | midge | minim | minutia | minutiae | mite | mold | morphological individual | mote | nonfilterable virus | ont | organic being | organism | organization | particle | pathogen | physiological individual | picornavirus | pinhead | pinpoint | point | protozoa | protozoon | reovirus | rhinovirus | rickettsia | scrap | snip | snippet | speck | spirillum | spirochete | spore | staphylococcus | streptococcus | tittle | trypanosome | vanishing point | vibrio | virus | zooid | zoon

See Also | microorganism

Microbe In Webster's Dictionary

\Mi"crobe\, Microbion \Mi*cro"bi*on\, n. [NL. microbion, fr. Gr. ? little + ? life.] (Biol.) A microscopic organism; -- particularly applied to bacteria and especially to pathogenic forms; as, the microbe of fowl cholera.

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