bacterium
nounEtymology
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 bactēriumbor. English bacterium From New Latin bactērium, from Ancient Greek βακτήριον (baktḗrion, “small staff”), from βακτηρία (baktēría).
Definitions
A single-celled organism with cell walls but no nucleus or organelles.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at bacterium. 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.
A definitional loop anchored at bacterium. 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 bacterium
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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