bacteriophage
noun/bækˈtɪəɹ.ɪəʊˌfeɪd͡ʒ/
Etymology
Borrowed from French bactériophage, coined by microbiologist Félix d'Hérelle, from bacterio- (“bacteria”) + -phage (“eater”).
- borrowed from bactériophage
Definitions
A virus that specifically infects bacteria.
- Another possibility is to enlist a bacteriophage, a kind of virus, to hunt down and kill harmful bacteria for us.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for bacteriophage. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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