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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

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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 does not occur, we are dealing with pseudobacteria. Sternberg.

Related words: (words related to PSEUDOBACTERIA)

• POWDERY
  1. Easily crumbling to pieces; friable; loose; as, a powdery spar. 2. Sprinkled or covered with powder; dusty; as, the powdery bloom on plums. 3. Resembling powder; consisting of powder. "The powdery snow." Wordsworth.
• DIVIDER
  An instrument for dividing lines, describing circles, etc., compasses. See Compasses. Note: The word dividers is usually applied to the instrument as made for the use of draughtsmen, etc.; compasses to the coarser instrument used by carpenters.
• ORGANICALNESS
  The quality or state of being organic.
• DIVIDEND
  A number or quantity which is to be divided. (more info) 1. A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated
• INORGANICAL
  Inorganic. Locke.
• BACTERIAL
  Of or pertaining to bacteria.
• POWDERED
  See WALPOLE (more info) 1. Reduced to a powder; sprinkled with, or as with, powder. 2. Sprinkled with salt; salted; corned. Powdered beef, pickled meats. Harvey.
• DEVELOPMENT
  The series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization. The act or process of changing or expanding an expression into another
• ORGANIZATION
  1. The act of organizing; the act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action; as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body. "The first organization of the general government." Pickering. 2. The state of being organized; also,
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• MICROSCOPIC; MICROSCOPICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to the microscope or to microscopy; made with a microscope; as, microscopic observation. 2. Able to see extremely minute objects. Why has not man a microscopic eye Pope. 3. Very small; visible only by the aid of a microscope;
• INORGANIC
  Not organic; without the organs necessary for life; devoid of an organized structure; unorganized; lifeness; inanimate; as, all chemical compounds are inorganic substances. Note: The term inorganic is used to denote any one the large series
• BACTERIA
  See BACTERIUM
• POWDER-POSTED
  Affected with dry rot; reduced to dust by rot. See Dry rot, under Dry.
• DEVELOPABLE
  Capable of being developed. J. Peile. Developable surface , a surface described by a moving right line, and such that consecutive positions of the generator intersect each other. Hence, the surface can be developed into a plane.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• MOLECULAR
  Pertaining to, connected with, produced by, or consisting of, molecules; as, molecular forces; molecular groups of atoms, etc. Molecular attraction , attraction acting between the molecules of bodies, and at insensible distances. -- Molecular
• ORGANIZABLE
  Capable of being organized; esp. , capable of being formed into living tissue; as, organizable matter.
• DIVIDEDLY
  Separately; in a divided manner.
• DEVELOP
  To change the form of, as of an algebraic expression, by executing certain indicated operations without changing the value. (more info) voleper, to envelop, perh. from L. volup agreeably, delightfully, and hence orig., to make agreeable
• INTRAMOLECULAR
  Between molecules; situated, or acting, between the molecules of bodies.
• NONDEVELOPMENT
  Failure or lack of development.
• SUBDIVIDE
  To divide the parts of into more parts; to part into smaller divisions; to divide again, as what has already been divided. The progenies of Cham and Japhet swarmed into colonies, and those colonies were subdivided into many others. Dryden.
• BEPOWDER
  To sprinkle or cover with powder; to powder.
• SUBGROUP
  A subdivision of a group, as of animals. Darwin.
• WENLOCK GROUP
  The middle subdivision of the Upper Silurian in Great Britain; -- so named from the typical locality in Shropshire.
• AGGROUPMENT
  Arrangement in a group or in groups; grouping.
• SPIROBACTERIA
  See MICROBACTERIA
• GOA POWDER
  A bitter powder found in the interspaces of the wood of a Brazilian tree and used as a medicine. It is the material from which chrysarobin is obtained.
• ATLAS POWDER
  A blasting powder or dynamite composed of nitroglycerin, wood fiber, sodium nitrate, and magnesium carbonate.