Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An organism shaped like a bacterium; specifically, the branched form of bacteria found in the root-nodules of leguminous plants.
- Resembling or closely allied to bacteria.
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- adjective rare Resembling a
bacterium
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- adjective resembling bacteria
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The so-called "Köpfchenbacterien" of older writers are simply bacterioid segments with a spore at one end, the mother cell-wall having adapted itself to the outline of the spore (fig. 4, F).
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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