Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An organism of microscopic or submicroscopic size, especially a bacterium or protozoan.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A microscopic organism, as a bacillus, bacterium, or vibrio; a microbe; a microzoary.
Wiktionary
- n. microbiology An organism that is too small to be seen by the unaided eye, especially a single-celled organism, such as a bacterium.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Biol.) Any microscopic form of life; a form of life too small to be seen by the naked eye; -- particularly applied to bacteria, protozoa, yeasts, and similar organisms, esp. such are supposed to cause infectious diseases.
WordNet 3.0
- n. any organism of microscopic size
- n. any organism of microscopic size
Etymologies
- From micro- + organism. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“This study gives a systems biology view of how a phenotype, or a 'network state' advantageous to a microorganism is comprised of a tiny subset of a much larger universe of possibilities as provided for in the genome," said Palsson.”
“The single cell of a microorganism is a perfect protein factory.”
“It exchanges a functional definition of a pathogen -- that is, a microorganism that can do harm -- for a very complicated approach that says: 'Maybe it's a pathogen and maybe it's not, and there are infinite numbers of possibilities'.”
“After they got interested in that microorganism, they prepared several canned meats, and checked the radioactivity: The meats were still rotting, and all of other microbes were completely destroyed, except one microorganism, which is known as deinococcus radiodurans.”
“After it was turned on, the Robot Scientist made a few discoveries on the genomics of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae microorganism, which is widely used by experts to model more complex creatures.”
“After they got interesting in that [[microorganism]], they prepared several canned [[| meat | meats]], and checked the radioactivity, still the meats were rotting, and all of other microbes were completely destroyed, except one microorganism, which is known as deinococcus radiodurans today.”
“After they got interestedi n that [[microorganism]], they prepared several canned meats, and checked the radioactivity stillr otting, and all of other microbes were completely destroyed, except one microorganism, which is known as deinococcus radiodurans.”
“Firstly, you decide whether your microorganism will be a carnivore or a herbivore.”
“[[| meat | meats]], and checked the radioactivity, still the meats were rotting, and all of other microbes were completely destroyed, except one microorganism, which is known as deinococcus radiodurans today.”
“The makers of Slim-Fast say the premade shakes may be contaminated with some kind of microorganism, harmful bacteria.”
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