Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the character of a micro-organism; of or pertaining to microbes and other micro-organisms; microbial.
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Examples
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Little is known of the micro-organic world, but that little is appalling; and no census of it will ever be taken, for there is the true, literal "abysmal fecundity."
THE HUMAN DRIFT 2010
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The micro-organic world was an invisible world, a world we could not see, and we knew very little about it.
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For all they knew, in that invisible micro-organic world there might be as many different kinds of germs as there are grains of sand on this beach.
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You see, the micro-organic world remained a mystery to the end.
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Hundred-ton guns were toys compared with the micro-organic projectiles hurled from the laboratories, the messengers of death, the destroying angels that stalked through the empire of a billion souls.
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It was only in 1877 that the formation of nitrates in the soil was proved to be due to the action of micro-organic life, [104] by the two French chemists, Schloesing and Müntz, who discovered the fact when carrying out experiments to see if the presence of humic matter was essential to the purification of sewage by soil.
Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman
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Subsequent researches by Pasteur and others have conclusively demonstrated that the micro-organic life instrumental in effecting the putrefaction or decay of organic matter of any kind, may be divided into two great classes: --
Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman
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The discovery, which has been repeatedly referred to in these pages, that the leguminous order of crops, to which clover belongs, have the power of absorbing the free nitrogen of the air through the agency of micro-organic life in the plant and in the soil, has furnished an explanation of this long-debated problem.
Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman
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Action of _micro-organic_ life in producing fermentation 255
Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman
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[45] As will be seen further on, the fermentation of organic substances is caused by the action of micro-organic life.
Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman
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