Associations to the word «Bacteroid»
Wiktionary
BACTEROID, noun. (dated) A micro-organism such as a bacterium or yeast.
BACTEROID, noun. A bacterium of the species Bacteroides.
BACTEROID, noun. A symbiotic form of the nitrogen-fixing bacterium Rhizobia, or the root nodule that it produces.
BACTEROID, adjective. (biology) Resembling bacteria.
Dictionary definition
BACTEROID, noun. A rodlike bacterium (especially any of the rod-shaped or branched bacteria in the root nodules of nitrogen-fixing plants).
BACTEROID, adjective. Resembling bacteria.
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