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.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.