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bacteria

noun
/bakˈtɪə̯.ri.ə/UK/bækˈtɪɹ.i.ə/US

Etymology

Etymology tree Ancient Greek βᾰκτηρῐ́ᾱ (băktērĭ́ā) Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Ancient Greek -ῐος (-ĭos)? Ancient Greek -ῐον (-ĭon) Ancient Greek βακτήριον (baktḗrion)bor. New Latin bactēriabor. English bacteria Borrowed from New Latin bacteria, plural of bactērium, from Ancient Greek βακτήριον (baktḗrion, “little rod”).

  1. derived from βακτήριον
  2. borrowed from bacteria

Definitions

  1. plural of bacterium

  2. A type, species, or strain of bacterium.

    • Anaerobic bacteria function in the absence of oxygen, where as aerobic bacteria require sunlight and also oxygen. Both these bacterias are capable of breaking down the organic matter […]

  3. Alternative form of bacterium.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Lowlife, slob (could be treated as plural or singular).

    2. An oval bacterium, as distinguished from a spherical coccus or rod-shaped bacillus.

The neighborhood

Derived

Archaebacteria, Archebacteria, Bacteria, bacterialess, bacterin, bacteriosis, bacteriuria, bacterivore, bacterize, Eubacteria, green non-sulfur bacteria, green sulfur bacteria, pseudobacteria, purple bacteria, slime bacteria, spherobacteria

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at bacteria. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at bacteria. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at bacteria

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA