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Word Meanings - BACTERIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to bacteria.

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  • BACTERIAL
    Of or pertaining to bacteria.
  • BACTERIA
    See BACTERIUM
  • PERTAIN
    stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
  • SPIROBACTERIA
    See MICROBACTERIA
  • PSEUDOBACTERIA
    Microscopic organic particles, molecular granules, powdered inorganic substances, etc., which in form, size, and grouping resemble bacteria. Note: The globules which divide and develop in form of chains are organized beings; when this
  • MICROBACTERIA
    In the classification of Cohn, one of the four tribes of Bacteria. Note: In this classification bacteria are divided into four tribes: 1. Spherobacteria, or spherical bacteria, as the genus Micrococcus. 2. Microbacteria, or bacteria in the form
  • SPHEROBACTERIA
    See MICROBACTERIA
  • DESMOBACTERIA
    See MICROBACTERIA
  • ANTIBACTERIAL
    Inimical to bacteria; -- applied esp. to serum for protection against bacterial diseases. Opposed to the bacterial theory of disease.
  • STREPTOBACTERIA
    A so-called variety of bacterium, consisting in reality of several bacteria linked together in the form of a chain.
  • APPERTAIN
    To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach

 

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