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- noun biology The ingestion of
bacteria asfood or as anenergy supply
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qroqqa commented on the word bacterivory
The eating of bacteria. The eater is a bacterivore and is therefore bacterivorous, all good words. Some euglenids live by bacterivory. For more see TOLWEB on Euglenida.
June 18, 2015