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microbe |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Microbe \Mi"crobe\, Microbion \Mi*cro"bi*on\, n. [NL. microbion, fr Gr ? little + ? life.] (Biol.) A microscopic organism; -- particularly applied to bacteria and especially to pathogenic forms; as the microbe of fowl cholera. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: microbe n : a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use [syn: {bug}, {germ}]
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