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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An organism, such as a bacterium, requiring oxygen to live. Also called aerobium.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. One of the aërobia.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Any organism (but especially a bacterium) that can tolerate the presence of oxygen, or that needs oxygen to survive

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. an organism such as a microorganism that requires oxygen for life or growth.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an organism (especially a bacterium) that requires air or free oxygen for life

Etymologies

  1. French aérobie : Greek āēr, air; see aero- + Greek bios, life; see gwei- in Indo-European roots.

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