About The Word Microorganism

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Microorganism

Microorganism Meaning & Definition
Microorganism Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Microorganism?

[n] any organism (animal or plant) of microscopic size

Synonyms | Synonyms for Microorganism:

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

See Also | bacteria | bacterium | being | bug | germ | intestinal flora | microbe | moneran | moneron | organism | pathogen | pilus | protist | protistan | protoctist | virus

Microorganism In Webster's Dictionary

\Mi`cro*["o]r"gan*ism\, n. [Micro- + organism.] (Biol.) Any microscopic form of life; -- particularly applied to bacteria and similar organisms, esp. such are supposed to cause infectious diseases.

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